Speaker 1: Welcome in. We'll drive you to the great episode three fourteen.
Speaker 1: Those of you who were in the YouTube chat or
Speaker 1: watching beforehand, you got a little sneak preview of the show.
Speaker 1: Luckily you know what I mean, and you know I'm
Speaker 1: not the all time legend Mike Francessa out here, just
Speaker 1: you know, just scolding my producers for bad information, because
Speaker 1: I got great producers that don't give me bad information.
Speaker 1: I'm not even So you guys got a little preview
Speaker 1: of us when we thought we were off the air.
Speaker 1: We were on the air. But luckily we're professional at
Speaker 1: all times drownd here, so we ain't got to worry
Speaker 1: about it. Being professional at all times seems to be
Speaker 1: in short capacity in my industry these days. So let's
Speaker 1: get right to it. Here's what missed the cut. Joker
Speaker 1: came back, reminded everyone's Joker thirty nine, ten and ten
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans like, but maybe don't love Cam Moore.
Speaker 1: They might trade the pick major League Baseball opening Day.
Speaker 1: None of that is on the show today because of well,
Speaker 1: demon's a take it away.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so Lebron's had quite a day. Obviously, he hit
Speaker 2: the buzzer Beaterer yesterday. Yeah, a little bit of a
Speaker 2: rough game, but obviously the buzzerbader to win.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the McAfee hit. He's been having.
Speaker 2: The whole stephen A Smith thing going on is, yeah,
Speaker 2: you want to start with the game?
Speaker 3: Where do you want to go with it?
Speaker 1: So since the moment Lebron walked up on steven A Smith,
Speaker 1: I would, aside from the groin injury, I would argue
Speaker 1: everything has come up Lebron, and it would appear we
Speaker 1: are in the midst. And our younger producers or co
Speaker 1: host or audience can tell me if I'm using this
Speaker 1: term wrong, but it would appear we are in the
Speaker 1: midst from steven A of what the kids call a
Speaker 1: crash out, and it is day by day by day.
Speaker 1: The moment Lebron confronted steven A, just between third and
Speaker 1: fourth quarter of a game, Bron's team was trailing by tena,
Speaker 1: steven A's favorite team. On the day, stephen A had
Speaker 1: gotten and deserved his new five year, one hundred million
Speaker 1: dollar contract, and then he had to sit there and
Speaker 1: think about how am I going to respond to the
Speaker 1: fact that this guy came up checked me, kept it moving.
Speaker 1: Did the worst thing you can ever do to someone
Speaker 1: in our profession, not give us a chance to respond,
Speaker 1: not let us talk, and then walked my team down
Speaker 1: and beat him. And then Lebron is very very judicious
Speaker 1: with the interviews that he gives. And it was not
Speaker 1: coincidental that Lebron then decides to go on with McAfee,
Speaker 1: who some people consider Stephen A's rival for face of
Speaker 1: the network, no rival for face of the league, by
Speaker 1: the way, more on that. In the moment, we know
Speaker 1: who that is, and after this week we know who
Speaker 1: face of American Sports is. But face of the network,
Speaker 1: that's an argument, Stephen ay Er McAfee. So Lebron picks
Speaker 1: that guy to go on that show on that network
Speaker 1: and then that night, and this is where I will
Speaker 1: get to the soap opera stuff in a second, but
Speaker 1: this is where the greatest of all time remind you
Speaker 1: that they are. Lebron had put extra pressure on himself
Speaker 1: by doing that interview. And guess what, through three quarters
Speaker 1: he had the fewest points he's had through three quarters
Speaker 1: in a game since I was in college. He's unfathomable.
Speaker 1: One two hundred and eighty two game streak of double
Speaker 1: digit points. When the second most is eight hundred something
Speaker 1: is in real jeopardy. And of all days, the day
Speaker 1: that the streak's going to be snapped is a day
Speaker 1: that you know, the biggest voice in sports media the
Speaker 1: very next morning is going to do everything he can
Speaker 1: to rip you to shreds. That's when your streak might break.
Speaker 1: That's when you're gonna give a little more fodder to
Speaker 1: the folks who say, oh, great player, but you know,
Speaker 1: doesn't quite have that clutch gene. So how does he respond,
Speaker 1: not only by immediately in the fourth quarter getting the
Speaker 1: to double digit points and leading the Lakers to where Okay,
Speaker 1: they're gonna win. Wait, did they just squander a twelve
Speaker 1: point lead? Okay, Ruey hit those two threes, They're fine.
Speaker 1: Did they just give up a seven to zero run
Speaker 1: out of nowhere? And then a perfect, absolutely perfect you
Speaker 1: want to put on Lebron James basketball tombstone, a fifteen
Speaker 1: second sequence put the end of that Pacers game with
Speaker 1: the context of the day. So here's what it is.
Speaker 1: Down one, gotta get a stop. Can't double off guys
Speaker 1: on the Pacers because they all can shoot. Bron realizes,
Speaker 1: oh shot clucks down to three, You're not gonna have
Speaker 1: time to pass. Sins Is double creates the terrible shot,
Speaker 1: and before the shots even miss has leaked out and
Speaker 1: would have the go ahead layup. Luca doesn't see it
Speaker 1: in time. They pitch it ahead late. All of the
Speaker 1: guys who have fewer career playoff buzzer beaters, who are
Speaker 1: have worse career field goal percentage in the clutch, who
Speaker 1: are by any objective measure, worse in the biggest moments,
Speaker 1: but we deify because those players historically have put their
Speaker 1: personal glory ahead of the team. All of those guys,
Speaker 1: when they get the pitch ahead down one six are saying,
Speaker 1: I don't care that a double is being sent my way.
Speaker 1: I'm taking this damn shot, not Lebron James. Make the
Speaker 1: right play in the moment and for the big picture.
Speaker 1: In the moment, Luca's more open and big picture we
Speaker 1: need him to be the guy and be great. I'm
Speaker 1: giving him the ball. And Lucas said after the game,
Speaker 1: how much confidence that gave him that in that moment
Speaker 1: that day, the Lebron James ESPN day, he could have
Speaker 1: said I'm making sure I'm taking the last shot. He said, No,
Speaker 1: make the right play and Luca missed, But for the
Speaker 1: all around greatest player ever, guess what, right position, right effort,
Speaker 1: a little more energy, a little higher IQ in the
Speaker 1: right spot for the tip, ind for his first buzzer
Speaker 1: beater since he walked off the Raptors in Game three
Speaker 1: of the Eastern Conference Semifinals in twenty eighteen as a
Speaker 1: cav eighth career buzzer beater, third in the regular season,
Speaker 1: five in the playoffs, which, for those keeping track at home,
Speaker 1: more than Kobe and might combined more on Kobe, the
Speaker 1: late great Kobe Bryant, who didn't ask to be brought
Speaker 1: into this but got brought into this in just a moment.
Speaker 1: So go watch those last fifteen seconds and see why
Speaker 1: Lebron's the best player we've ever seen, Because in year
Speaker 1: twenty two, at age forty, he understood when to send
Speaker 1: a double, He understood how to leak out. He understood,
Speaker 1: oh I'm getting doubled, it's not about me and my ego.
Speaker 1: And he understood, in case Luca misses, let me be
Speaker 1: in the right spot. And so on a day that
Speaker 1: as much pressure as could be on a player in
Speaker 1: a regular season March game, Lebron delivered with another brilliant
Speaker 1: fourth quarter and with the game winning tipping and then
Speaker 1: got on his phone found out that stephen A had
Speaker 1: told the world if Lebron had put his hands on me,
Speaker 1: I would have swung on him. And so he posts
Speaker 1: the pictures, the video of steven A boxing and now
Speaker 1: the feud goes on. So now to the stephen A
Speaker 1: of it all. I said it before, I will say
Speaker 1: it again. It is a lost art in current culture.
Speaker 1: Just taken l man, just taken L. All you had
Speaker 1: to do the day after Lebron walked up on you
Speaker 1: against the Knicks was do kind of what you did
Speaker 1: on TV, which was be like, I don't really want
Speaker 1: to talk about this. That was a father talking about
Speaker 1: his son, and again that was a little misleading. It
Speaker 1: wasn't so much about stephen A's commentary on bronni as
Speaker 1: much as it was about stephen A's commentary about Lebron
Speaker 1: as a father. And listen, all you had to say
Speaker 1: was I think I've been more than fair. Lebron obviously disagrees.
Speaker 1: I would have told him that if he had given
Speaker 1: me the opportunity he seems to be, and it was
Speaker 1: communicated to me he was really bothered by what he
Speaker 1: thought was me questioning him as a father. That was
Speaker 1: never my intention. I would never do that, and it's
Speaker 1: dead and it's over. Instead, you do half a dozen
Speaker 1: podcasts about it, you start fantasizing about what if he
Speaker 1: had put his hands on me? You you do.
Speaker 2: On the putting his hands on him thinking. Lebron ended
Speaker 2: up posting the boxing video. Stephen A did say that.
Speaker 2: He said later in the video he would thoroughly kick
Speaker 2: my butt.
Speaker 3: So I feel it.
Speaker 1: I am.
Speaker 3: He wasn't, you know, he wasn't like faking the funk there, no, but.
Speaker 1: He but it's well, I disagree to it. You're right,
Speaker 1: you're totally correct. He didn't imply. Steven A didn't imply
Speaker 1: I would have whooped his ass, right, yeah, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that. But he is creating you know
Speaker 1: what he's doing. Oh, this is gonna make him mad,
Speaker 1: This will hurt the this will cut and I don't
Speaker 1: mean it too. But steven A, in real time the
Speaker 1: last three weeks, on national television and podcast and every
Speaker 1: platform available is doing what we've all done standing alone
Speaker 1: in the shower. You know what I'm.
Speaker 2: Gonna say, Yeah, like, go ahead, but yeah, I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1: Man, what I should have done. And then if I'd
Speaker 1: have done that, he'd have done this, and then I'd
Speaker 1: have done that, and then he'd have done this. He's
Speaker 1: recreating in real time how the interaction should have gone.
Speaker 1: For our older audience, it's Costanza and the Shrimp and
Speaker 1: the jerk store ran out of you. But in real time,
Speaker 1: in real life, against the world's most popular athlete, that's
Speaker 1: what's happening. We are seeing it. Ah, Man, that would
Speaker 1: have killed him in the argument, Oh, I should have
Speaker 1: said this, But if I'd have said that, that might
Speaker 1: have put him over the edge, and then they might
Speaker 1: have hit me. And if they hit me, man, I'd
Speaker 1: have to hit them back. I know, I'd get my
Speaker 1: ass kicked right after. Stop it, man, there's no need
Speaker 1: for it. And we can say, you know, Lebron should
Speaker 1: be above this. Lebron been above this shit for twenty
Speaker 1: five years. Lebron went his entire career without everone saying
Speaker 1: these two words. Skip Bayless never mention his name. And
Speaker 1: by the way, sidebar.
Speaker 4: Man, Skip has to be sick livid that he is,
Speaker 4: I mean just sick that this is.
Speaker 1: Happening right now. The one of my demand knows. This
Speaker 1: one of my kind of you know, sayings that I like,
Speaker 1: sometimes you know, as a joke, sometimes as a lesson,
Speaker 1: sometimes as an atta boy. Is every decision you've ever
Speaker 1: made in your entire life has led to you to
Speaker 1: this very moment. And that is true for all of us,
Speaker 1: in every moment. And sometimes you know, it can be
Speaker 1: a cut, it can be a positive, whatever it is,
Speaker 1: you know. And again I have affection for Skip, and
Speaker 1: so I'm not I'm just being honest. You know, there's
Speaker 1: a moment last night or this morning when Skip is
Speaker 1: like I'm about to instead of having this discussion on
Speaker 1: national television sitting across from stephen A himself or Shannon,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have this discussion in my house, sitting across
Speaker 1: from Ernestine. And that's not how this was supposed to go.
Speaker 1: Like this is like this would be the moment. And
Speaker 1: again my record reflects that I don't think that's unfair.
Speaker 1: I know that if the wrong people clip it, whatever,
Speaker 1: I'll deal with this.
Speaker 3: Situation.
Speaker 1: That is the reality of the situation. And here's the
Speaker 1: other piece of it. And I say this pretty confidently.
Speaker 1: I do not think Lebron will ever talk about this again. Now,
Speaker 1: maybe the fact that Stephen A evidently a few minutes
Speaker 1: ago said took a shot at Lebron for not being
Speaker 1: at Kobe's memorial, maybe that will generate a quick reaction
Speaker 1: because that is what Lebron was talking about last night
Speaker 1: or yesterday on McAfee, was like, there's basketball criticism, then
Speaker 1: there's this other criticism.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like that's how it bounds, right, like as like
Speaker 2: how that's a really I mean, that feels out abounds.
Speaker 1: It feels out of bounds. I and now listen, I
Speaker 1: try to be self aware enough. I look back and
Speaker 1: I say, I've been out of bounds at times, but
Speaker 1: I get when those guys don't like me, so like
Speaker 1: something again, to kind of mix metaphors a bit, I
Speaker 1: know you haven't. If people are kind of new to
Speaker 1: the pod, well hi welcome everyone, like rate, subscribe review. Also,
Speaker 1: if you're super new, you probably don't. You're maybe a
Speaker 1: little confuser. Don't know. Me and Demonse's dynamic. Demansey's my son,
Speaker 1: and Demonse didn't grow up like wanting to be in
Speaker 1: sports media. It just came about that. I wanted him
Speaker 1: to do this with me, and so we've done it together.
Speaker 1: For now. The life of the podcast took a few
Speaker 1: months off. His sister filled in. But that's what it is.
Speaker 1: And there's a reason I'm explaining this, especially early on
Speaker 1: in the pod. If you really disagreed with me on something,
Speaker 1: you didn't say it, now you would like it's still
Speaker 1: it's that's not like an asshole. It's my show, and
Speaker 1: so you you understand the dynamic of it. But you
Speaker 1: are You've been doing it long enough, and I think
Speaker 1: and also you're older than you were or whatever. Or
Speaker 1: if you think I'm way out of bounds on something,
Speaker 1: you'll politely or kindly or whatever. So here's the reason, right,
Speaker 1: here's the reason I mention it. There was time when
Speaker 1: I know for a fact, even though he didn't put
Speaker 1: voice to it, demands thought some of my Kyrie Irving
Speaker 1: stuff was out of bounds. It was like, hey, that's
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, that's not about basketball. You
Speaker 1: know that's unfair, And I in the is am I
Speaker 1: putting words in your mouth like that?
Speaker 3: Fair? I think it was a little heavy fork.
Speaker 1: Right, Okay, So here's here's the reason I'm bringing that up.
Speaker 1: If Kyrie Irving does not like me and has a
Speaker 1: real issue with me because of that totally fair? Now,
Speaker 1: what I like the opportunity ideally to at some point
Speaker 1: because I am now not only really impressed by Kyrie,
Speaker 1: but fascinated by Kyrie, and I actually think there are
Speaker 1: a lot of really interesting things about him. If that
Speaker 1: is how he feels about me, would I really like
Speaker 1: the opportunity to give the full scope of my commentary
Speaker 1: and say like, hey, maybe you haven't seen some of
Speaker 1: these other things I've said, or you know whatever, I
Speaker 1: would do. I think he owes me that, No, do
Speaker 1: I just have to eat the fact. Hey man, that
Speaker 1: guy might just think you're a fucking clown. He might, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I hope not. And so I know that I was
Speaker 1: unfair but a far about far less serious things. But
Speaker 1: I took kind of basketball exclusive related cheap shots at
Speaker 1: Durant on Twitter, and he took him back at me.
Speaker 1: And I have since tried, truly tried through kind of
Speaker 1: back channels to repair that because it's and I don't
Speaker 1: even know if it needs repairing. But it was like, hey,
Speaker 1: I think we all knew what was going on there,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean that? And I was keeping
Speaker 1: it purely about basketball, but it was it was there
Speaker 1: were a couple things that were probably like, Okay, you're
Speaker 1: going you are tweeting for the likes or whatever, rather
Speaker 1: than it's not hardcore analysis and so like. But I
Speaker 1: own that, I wear that, I know it. Part of
Speaker 1: the business is accepting some of these guys aren't gonna
Speaker 1: like you, and some of them are not going to
Speaker 1: be wrong for not liking you. And here is where,
Speaker 1: and this is where I think Steven A has made
Speaker 1: a grievous error. He just today he's said, quote, He'll
Speaker 1: smile on your face then stab you in the back.
Speaker 1: That's why I don't like him. He's bringing up Wade's
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame induction, Kobe's memorial. He's saying, quote, he
Speaker 1: literally circummitted meritocracy in the NBA. Here's the problem, man,
Speaker 1: And this is where, by continuing to talk about this
Speaker 1: and not allowing yourself to take the l you are
Speaker 1: really putting yourself in a bad spot. You always claimed
Speaker 1: you had no problem with Lebron. You always claimed he
Speaker 1: only had a problem with you. Up until six weeks ago,
Speaker 1: the stance was, oh, nothing but loving Lebron James. I,
Speaker 1: you know, a a great person in the community, a
Speaker 1: great This a great that I just I just think
Speaker 1: he's not the greatest basketball player ever. I just think
Speaker 1: he's only the second greatest player ever. And because of that,
Speaker 1: he has a problem with me. That's been the public stance.
Speaker 1: And now the guy makes fun of you on Instagram
Speaker 1: and takes a couple of jokes at your expense on McAfee,
Speaker 1: and you're letting everyone know, actually, no, never liked him.
Speaker 1: And so if the if, if we are going to
Speaker 1: do a full, real telling of it, it then the
Speaker 1: honest answer is, so why what's been the problem? Was
Speaker 1: there something personal before? And the answer is no, Lebron
Speaker 1: wouldn't talk to him, that was the problem. Lebron wouldn't
Speaker 1: talk to him or acknowledge him. And Michael Jordan texts
Speaker 1: with him. That's it. It's the whole thing. That's the
Speaker 1: start of it. And so I.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: People ask me all the time, man, do you believe
Speaker 1: what you say? And my answer always is, now, do
Speaker 1: I say it louder or more emphatically, or add some
Speaker 1: spice to it or whatever? Do I dress it up? Sure?
Speaker 1: Of course? But the reason and this is not my quote, uh,
Speaker 1: but this quote is correct. If you never lie, you
Speaker 1: don't ever have to remember anything when you do as
Speaker 1: And I'm not acting like I'm someone that never lies.
Speaker 1: I probably have a bit of a I'm probably true
Speaker 1: character flaw of mine is I am my most honest
Speaker 1: talking to you guys, friends and family. I might you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I might be like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I can dance through the rain drops here a bit
Speaker 1: and clean this up later. And that's not be honestly.
Speaker 1: It's self serving. It's not out of some Woodrow and
Speaker 1: Burnstein Woodward Woodrow Jesus Woodward and Burnstein journalism ethic. It's
Speaker 1: because I don't want to have to. It is too
Speaker 1: difficult to do this much content. If you're having to remember,
Speaker 1: oh shit, I said that, and if your stance forever,
Speaker 1: forever has been I have no problem with that person.
Speaker 1: He has a problem with me. And then the first
Speaker 1: time you get pressed you empty the clip about everything
Speaker 1: you've always had a problem with. People are gonna say
Speaker 1: you're fucking lying to us. You were lying to us,
Speaker 1: and I don't. And here is the problem with people
Speaker 1: in general who don't have the ability to take an
Speaker 1: l and who are very online and who are public figures.
Speaker 1: This applies to I guess some of our actual politicians
Speaker 1: and some of our potentially would be or want to
Speaker 1: be politicians. All you can do is keep doubling, tripling,
Speaker 1: and quadrupling down because you don't have the ability to
Speaker 1: be like I was wrong. You constantly are reminded of
Speaker 1: the incident at hand, and you are constantly reading people
Speaker 1: make fun of you or rip you. So again, I
Speaker 1: am not trying to act like I am some I
Speaker 1: am you know, the silver bullet on this stuff. However,
Speaker 1: I do have one kind of just natural superpower, I guess,
Speaker 1: and another decision I've made. The natural superpower is this
Speaker 1: I am totally fine being wrong, like, oh shit, got
Speaker 1: that one wrong. My bad, not a problem. And the
Speaker 1: other one is I don't read my mentions, so people
Speaker 1: are like, I'm I am not finding my and had
Speaker 1: a third thing I'm very good at. I'm I'm on
Speaker 1: the right side of the great athletes conversation. Like. The
Speaker 1: other thing is like, I you know, I in the
Speaker 1: hey Lebron James good or overrated. I had the foresight
Speaker 1: to be like, I'll go with good, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. I think I'll plant my flag on good
Speaker 1: and see how it plays out. Over the next fifteen years.
Speaker 1: And so that's been help that's been helpful, But I
Speaker 1: I can't believe that this is how these last few
Speaker 1: weeks have gone. And the fact that so here's the
Speaker 1: other piece of it that's important, demands on one one
Speaker 1: party in this is fighting a war of war work.
Speaker 1: I can never say that war of words reminders reminder
Speaker 1: of the new people in the audience and young people. I,
Speaker 1: as someone who my only skill is speaking and arguing,
Speaker 1: had a really bad speech impediment growing up and couldn't
Speaker 1: say my rs are my ls And now I do
Speaker 1: it for a living. So I this is kind of
Speaker 1: a s bar, but just for you know, young people
Speaker 1: out there or whatever, like yeah, you can get over anything.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say anything, but you can work on stuff
Speaker 1: and it won't hold you back.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, No, I was just flexing on you.
Speaker 1: No, well yeah, and we're world and girl. Anything that
Speaker 1: has the R L next to each other like that.
Speaker 1: I still struggle with a bit. And I've told this
Speaker 1: story nothing worse. And not being able to say your
Speaker 1: rs and your last name starts with a hard R,
Speaker 1: and when it's not an R, it sounds like a
Speaker 1: different word. You don't know how many times I went
Speaker 1: to basketball camp as a kid. They're like, what's your name?
Speaker 1: Nick White? They're like, no white, white, no white. It
Speaker 1: was brutal. Maybe that only happened once, but it's it
Speaker 1: seared me. It scarred me. The guy wrote down on
Speaker 1: my jersey right, and I'm like, no, it's not white,
Speaker 1: it's white. Brutal doesn't matter. I'm good now.
Speaker 3: Brutal.
Speaker 1: Here's the point I was making. In a war, stephen
Speaker 1: A is fighting a war of words. Lebron gets actually
Speaker 1: go out and play the games, and he's still awesome.
Speaker 1: So think about it. In the couple weeks since this
Speaker 1: all happened, Lakers had a winning streak, Bronni drops thirty
Speaker 1: nine drops, a career high in the NBA, has another
Speaker 1: good game the other night, bron last night hits a
Speaker 1: game winner. And you have positioned yourself. I can't imagine
Speaker 1: being this box stend. You have now positioned yourself where
Speaker 1: any time you give fair analysis about a good Laker
Speaker 1: game or Bronni or whatever, you're gonna get ripped for
Speaker 1: that too. Like you are all. You are so boxed in.
Speaker 1: And the guy, honest to god, so much of this
Speaker 1: as I've said before, so much of the toxicity of
Speaker 1: sports media, across all sports and all our debates is
Speaker 1: actually about Michael Jordan and that era and that era
Speaker 1: of people who came up in that era being like, man,
Speaker 1: my childhood was the best, I promise like and not
Speaker 1: seeing that every single human being ever it's like, hey,
Speaker 1: what's your favorite type of music? And for everyone it
Speaker 1: just happens to be the exact type of music they
Speaker 1: were listening to when they first got their car and
Speaker 1: first were able to drive. Who were the best athletes
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, it just happens to be for everyone,
Speaker 1: myself included the athletes like we watched in our formative
Speaker 1: years and then into adulthood and not being able to
Speaker 1: see that it's not special, it's just how human beings
Speaker 1: brains are constructed. But point is, this whole thing really
Speaker 1: generates from MJ's my body. This guy won't talk to me.
Speaker 1: I must, against all odds, support MJ's legacy. But MJ
Speaker 1: ain't playing anymore. You're never gonna be able to go
Speaker 1: on the show and be like, ah, look what Michael did.
Speaker 1: But this other guy won't fucking quit. He's he is.
Speaker 1: We are in a span of ten days, his son
Speaker 1: almost drops forty in the G League and scores are
Speaker 1: leads the Lakers in points in the NBA, and he
Speaker 1: has a buzzer beater. And so it's just a war
Speaker 1: you're not gonna win. And it's a war you're not
Speaker 1: gonna win because I think because of your popularity and
Speaker 1: success and talent, people of what enough people have watched
Speaker 1: you for long enough that we know what the record says,
Speaker 1: and we know you have always claimed you have no
Speaker 1: problem with Lebron. He has a problem with you, and
Speaker 1: then today you say he will smile on your face
Speaker 1: then stab you in the back. That's why I don't
Speaker 1: like him, is that just in the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: literally circumvented the meritocracy in the NBA. That in the
Speaker 1: last two weeks, and also again on the two online
Speaker 1: of this, if you were born in the previous century
Speaker 1: as I was, as demands was, if you were born
Speaker 1: as not in the two thousands, and you use the
Speaker 1: phrase as evidently he did today privately via text or
Speaker 1: god forbid, on television, but hurt, you're either way too
Speaker 1: online or you're just way too online, and so like.
Speaker 3: What are we doing steven A said, but hurt. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I thought that was Matt. I'm sorry that.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, you thought I was just taking
Speaker 1: a random shot at Matt Midranto. No no, And listen, I.
Speaker 3: The boxing video is bad.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. The boxing video is not bad. And
Speaker 1: that's here's here's what I mean. And this is where
Speaker 1: I'm And nobody ever listens to the whole thing. Nobody
Speaker 1: ever hears the whole thing. I shouldn't say nobody ever.
Speaker 1: But if you I stand by these shows in their
Speaker 1: entirety one it's hard to always stand by little individual snippets,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. But in their entirety, I
Speaker 1: think I'm fair. I really do. Here the so this
Speaker 1: is a piece of boxing video is not bad. Steven A,
Speaker 1: by his his own claim, was not in the shape
Speaker 1: he wanted to be in. Was overweight by his client.
Speaker 1: Not it's not me Nick saying it his client. So
Speaker 1: this guy at fifty something hired a trainer, lost a
Speaker 1: bunch of weight, got pretty jacked, and took up boxing.
Speaker 1: That's fucking awesome. That's cool. Actually I respect that and
Speaker 1: him feeling good about what he accomplished and being like, hey,
Speaker 1: here's me, you know, sparring or whatever it is, like
Speaker 1: people can make fun of it looks better than it
Speaker 1: if I did it, and I'm twenty years younger than it,
Speaker 1: that's cool. Actually, the problem is knowing that that is
Speaker 1: out there and then being like, yeah, man, me and
Speaker 1: bron might have had to throw down in the middle
Speaker 1: of Staples Center. You can't. You just can't leave yourself
Speaker 1: open like that. Like there is again it. There are
Speaker 1: a few old uh tiktoks that either your sister, your mom,
Speaker 1: or uh your auntie posted that I am like the
Speaker 1: funny final reveal of like a dance they're doing. Okay,
Speaker 1: those have never gone like megaviral, but they're there. There's
Speaker 1: somewhere you can find them through the internet. You better
Speaker 1: believe that. If I ever was like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go on TV and explain how you know,
Speaker 1: if this happened, I'd give it to Chris Brown like that.
Speaker 3: I might be like, oh no, wait a minute.
Speaker 1: Wait, wait a minute, that's got gonna end well for me.
Speaker 1: And I do think there is an element of megal
Speaker 1: Lamania two in the same timeframe. Thinking even though I'm
Speaker 1: on the wrong side of the argument, I'm gonna win
Speaker 1: this pr battle with Lebron James, and that's going to
Speaker 1: be one of the side quests. I'm on the other
Speaker 1: one is seriously contemplating running for president of the United States,
Speaker 1: like like, maybe maybe we've bitten off a little more
Speaker 1: than we can chew. So I really wonder in a
Speaker 1: year and two years and three years, how we're going
Speaker 1: to look back to this period and whether we're going
Speaker 1: to say, holy shit, this catapulted stephen A into another stratosphere,
Speaker 1: or if we're going to say that was as far
Speaker 1: as cultural, social, political relevance the high water mark. We'll see,
Speaker 1: I know what I would bet, but we'll see to
Speaker 1: the basketball piece of it for just another moment. I
Speaker 1: really do want to harp on that game itself, and
Speaker 1: the end of that being why I am I think
Speaker 1: it is so ludicrous to think any other player in
Speaker 1: the history of the sport is in the general vicinity
Speaker 1: of this guy in Lebron. The double digit point streak
Speaker 1: is something that I am old enough to remember. It
Speaker 1: was a big deal once upon a time when it
Speaker 1: was Jordan's and everyone was like, this guy scored ten
Speaker 1: plus points for ten more than ten years in a row.
Speaker 1: In every single game. It was considered unbreakable and unfathomable.
Speaker 1: And now that instead of the record being in the
Speaker 1: eight hundreds, the records in the high twelve hundreds. It
Speaker 1: is an afterthought. It is never mentioned, and I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people watched last night and weren't even
Speaker 1: aware of it.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: There was just an article written this week about about
Speaker 1: people betting on it, and it was really interesting. People
Speaker 1: bet Demond's air betting like, you know, minus ten thousand
Speaker 1: or I don't even.
Speaker 3: Just for the for the double digit to hit that night,
Speaker 3: for him to continue.
Speaker 1: Will Lebron get ten plus points? People are betting the yes.
Speaker 1: Sharp betters are betting the yes and just taking the
Speaker 1: one percent return or whatever it is. And there was
Speaker 1: an article written about it literally four days ago, and
Speaker 1: then it looked like it was gonna get snapped last night.
Speaker 1: It was crazy. But and there is a one of
Speaker 1: my favorite kind of Lebron anecdotes is he has suffered
Speaker 1: two major injuries in his career. Major the torn growing
Speaker 1: on Christmas against the Warriors his first year with the Lakers,
Speaker 1: and Solomon Hill somersaulting into his ankle and messing up
Speaker 1: his ankle and foot he missed months. Those are the
Speaker 1: only times he's missed months in his career. The Solomon
Speaker 1: Hill game, which knocked him out for months. After when
Speaker 1: Solomon Hill hit him, he had seven points, there was
Speaker 1: an injury, there was a timeout, Lebron said, I can
Speaker 1: keep going, played one more possession, hit a three in
Speaker 1: the corner to keep the streak alive, and did not
Speaker 1: play again for a couple months. He so it. Those
Speaker 1: types of things don't mean everything to him, but they
Speaker 1: mean enough that he was like, let me see if
Speaker 1: I can knock down one shot because I'm about to
Speaker 1: be out of here for a bit. And so last night,
Speaker 1: at no point was ill he'll score ten. The only
Speaker 1: way he won't score ten is suffering a very early injury,
Speaker 1: or if at some point he gets thrown out of
Speaker 1: the game. Those are the only ways they're either. Last night,
Speaker 1: there was no question to me whether or not even
Speaker 1: with three points going into the fourth quarter, he was
Speaker 1: gonna get it go ahead. What are you about to say?
Speaker 3: I'm just thinking, like, what was the last time Lebron
Speaker 3: was thrown out of the game.
Speaker 1: I don't I think he's been thrown out a couple times.
Speaker 1: He's fouled out obviously a few, but fouling out takes
Speaker 1: out so much later. But the double digit point thing
Speaker 1: is just a added piece. The end of the game.
Speaker 1: Is why he's I'm gonna go back to hold on, sorry,
Speaker 1: And this might glitch for a moment Lebron's first career
Speaker 1: playoff games because it is instructive. So it's not so
Speaker 1: much that in Lebron's is that hold on. Let me
Speaker 1: make sure I have this right there. It is. It's
Speaker 1: not so much that his first ever career playoff game
Speaker 1: he played all forty eight minutes and had thirty to
Speaker 1: eleven and eleven. That's not the story I'm telling here
Speaker 1: when he was twenty one years old. It is that
Speaker 1: if you remember that first playoff series, he was playing
Speaker 1: the Wizards, and in that very first Playoff series, ever
Speaker 1: after that brilliant Game one, I'm gonna pull up the
Speaker 1: play by play it was so maybe it wasn't Game one.
Speaker 1: I have to find the exact game it'll. I promise
Speaker 1: this story will be worth it. He got it was
Speaker 1: game one or Game two. He was criticized because down
Speaker 1: three late, he passed to the open guy. They didn't score,
Speaker 1: and they ended up losing and it was you have to,
Speaker 1: you know, take the final shot. And so, you know what,
Speaker 1: I have the year wrong because the next game he
Speaker 1: did hit the game winner. That happened, but he did
Speaker 1: hit the game winner. I want to because I was
Speaker 1: doing radio in Kansas City. So this is later in
Speaker 1: his career. Oh no, that's not it either. Gosh darn it,
Speaker 1: I don't have it, and I apologize. Uh morel of
Speaker 1: the story is, in one of his first playoff series,
Speaker 1: he passed the open guy for a playoff game winner.
Speaker 1: The I missed and he got annihilated for it. And
Speaker 1: you know what I do have I do have it right.
Speaker 1: It is his first playoff series because that's how the
Speaker 1: series ended, and then he hit a game winner of
Speaker 1: his own, but he had been criticized for not taking it.
Speaker 1: And then, at twenty one years old, in his first
Speaker 1: playoff series ever, the final two games go to overtime
Speaker 1: and in both of them he has the opportunity to
Speaker 1: take it himself, and in game five he does and
Speaker 1: hits what should have been his first career playoff buzzer beater,
Speaker 1: but there was zero point four left and in game
Speaker 1: six to win the series because the other team is like, no,
Speaker 1: you're not doing this to us again. He finds the
Speaker 1: open guy in Damon Jones, hits the game winner and
Speaker 1: they win. And that has flatly been who he's always been.
Speaker 1: And it was last night when, on a day nothing
Speaker 1: would have been better than him hitting the game winner,
Speaker 1: he found Luca because it was a better shot, and
Speaker 1: then he still ended up with the game winner that
Speaker 1: first play. This is why the Lebron narrative has always
Speaker 1: been so batshit. First playoff game ever thirty three eleven
Speaker 1: and eleven, third playoff game ever down one five seconds left,
Speaker 1: jump shot to win the game. Fifth playoff game ever
Speaker 1: down two point four left lay up to win the game.
Speaker 1: So he had two not quite not technical buzzer beaters,
Speaker 1: but two inside five second playoff game winners in his
Speaker 1: first five career playoff games, two in his first five,
Speaker 1: and it was still and then the very next year
Speaker 1: had essentially three game winners or game tying ones in
Speaker 1: the same game, the forty eight special against Detroit, that
Speaker 1: game where he scored twenty five straight points, where he
Speaker 1: scored twenty eight of the last twenty nine or twenty
Speaker 1: nine of last thirty he had dunk to put the
Speaker 1: game in overtime. He then had a and then in
Speaker 1: overtime had a three to tie it, and then a
Speaker 1: layup to win it. And still the narrative was created, Guys,
Speaker 1: not clutch because instead of serving his ego or instead
Speaker 1: of with respect to the late great Kobe Bryant, doing
Speaker 1: what Kobe would have done, which is what Michael Jordan
Speaker 1: would have done, which is I'm taking this shot no
Speaker 1: matter what he said, I'm gonna make the right play.
Speaker 1: And last night he made the right play and the
Speaker 1: basketball gods rewarded him with a game winner. Anyway, and listen,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you'll play tonight, coming off the injury,
Speaker 1: second night of a back to back. My guess is
Speaker 1: he will because he plays. I do know this, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be there in Memphis. I don't know if that games.
Speaker 1: I don't think that games. I thought the game was
Speaker 1: gonna be on national TV. I don't think it is
Speaker 1: on League On League Pass, you'll be able to see me,
Speaker 1: and I you know, listen, for all I know, Lebron's
Speaker 1: gonna run up on me and I'm gonna a month
Speaker 1: long media tour. My guess is the interaction will be
Speaker 1: a little bit differently, But we'll see. But I'll I'm
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Speaker 1: let's get to as quickly as we can some of
Speaker 1: these other topics, because we did just do an hour
Speaker 1: long a block. But I think it was I think
Speaker 1: it's the audience wanted there.
Speaker 3: It is worth it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So Dame is out indefinitely with a blood clot
Speaker 2: in his leg. Giannis missed the loss last night against
Speaker 2: the Nuggets. Bucks are rough shape right now, and they're
Speaker 2: their odds are dropped from plus twenty thousand. That's a
Speaker 2: thirteenth best in the NBA for the title. What do
Speaker 2: you think about that right now?
Speaker 1: I think they're I think they're totally cooked. Yeah, and listen,
Speaker 1: the way I understand blood clots is very simple when
Speaker 1: it comes to the NBA. If you get put on
Speaker 1: blood thinners, you are out six months. So that's why
Speaker 1: the Spurs instantly ruled out, ruled out Wimby and brandon
Speaker 1: Ing Listen, brandon Ingram missed six months of Sir Thompson
Speaker 1: missed six months. Wimby they think he's gonna miss six months.
Speaker 1: So this is brutal for Dame. And I think it's
Speaker 1: obvious that the Bucks championship aspirations, while they were quite thin,
Speaker 1: are now down to zero. Despite how great Giannis is.
Speaker 1: I also think that Jannie's future in Milwaukee comes into
Speaker 1: question a bit. He's thirty years old. It is he
Speaker 1: has finished Demon's a This is his MVP finishes over
Speaker 1: the last seventh season. Simmons brought this up, and he's,
Speaker 1: I mean it's remarkable first, first, fourth, third, third, fourth,
Speaker 1: and this year he'll finish fourth, maybe third, but third
Speaker 1: or fourth. It'll be Tatum and him or him and Tatum.
Speaker 1: A seven year run of dominance with one great playoff run.
Speaker 2: And we don't put many of the deconstruction of the
Speaker 2: Bucks on you, honest, Like, I think he really wanted uh,
Speaker 2: I think you really wanted Drew Holliday out of the
Speaker 2: building because he thought that Damian Lillard had the better
Speaker 2: chance of getting them back to the championship and that
Speaker 2: you're just seeing that play out.
Speaker 1: You're listen, You're not wrong. You're not wrong. Like the
Speaker 1: the Bucks went all in to get Drew because they
Speaker 1: had to get over the hump. They did, and they
Speaker 1: won a title the next year. I think they were
Speaker 1: the best by a lot. I think they would have
Speaker 1: crushed sorry the Warriors in the finals. But Middleton gets hurt.
Speaker 1: Your guy Tatum goes crazy in that round two in
Speaker 1: game six, and then Grant Williams. Tatum's crazy game was
Speaker 1: Game six. Grant Williams had the Game seven that that
Speaker 1: Game six was, you know, and I talk about this
Speaker 1: game a lot because this is one of those just
Speaker 1: insane playoff moment games where Tatum was unbelievable and Jannis
Speaker 1: was unbelievable, but Boston ended up running away with it.
Speaker 1: So Yannis in that game forty four twenty and six,
Speaker 1: forty four to twenty and six, but Tatum forty six,
Speaker 1: nine and four on you know, seventeen of thirty two
Speaker 1: from the field, seven of fifteen from three and they win.
Speaker 1: And then Game seven, if people don't remember it, I
Speaker 1: call it the Grant Williams game because Grant Williams let
Speaker 1: me I have hit seven three pointers and the Celtics
Speaker 1: went twenty two to fifty five from three, and you
Speaker 1: just lose, you know what I mean, It's just you lose.
Speaker 1: Then the next two years, Gianni's hurting the playoffs. But
Speaker 1: in the interregnum of those next two years, they trade
Speaker 1: for Dame because they're worried Giannis isn't gonna resign the
Speaker 1: Signs extension and the Dame thing hasn't worked out, just hasn't.
Speaker 2: And appreciate it though, you appreciate say it again, I said,
Speaker 2: we appreciate it though who's.
Speaker 1: We the Celtics.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Celtics.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well that's the other thing. By trading Dame
Speaker 1: and we win, they know. But also that's how you
Speaker 1: guys get Drew, Like.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's what I'm talking about. I'm talking about Drew
Speaker 2: Holliday saying I'm saying thank you Giannis for you know,
Speaker 2: wanting to get him out of the building.
Speaker 1: And I got yeah, And I mean he wasn't traded
Speaker 1: from Milwaukee to Boston, but.
Speaker 3: That's how they got the same type of deal, right, yeah, no,
Speaker 3: it is right.
Speaker 1: He's part of the Dame trade and then he ends
Speaker 1: up being shipped to Boston and it is Yeah. So
Speaker 1: I tough times in Milwaukee, and you know, they've made
Speaker 1: some mistakes. Firing the head coach for Doc probably was
Speaker 1: a mistake. The Dame trade has not worked out, and
Speaker 1: I just I do want.
Speaker 3: To try to get a technical last night on purpose
Speaker 3: and get I don't know if you saw that, but
Speaker 3: they wouldn't give it to him. They wouldn't give it
Speaker 3: to him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he need the time, they wouldn't give it to him.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to the next topic.
Speaker 2: Seeah, last night, not Tatum, no problem. He obviously went
Speaker 2: down with an ankle injury against Sacramento the other day,
Speaker 2: but yeah, they still beat up on the Suns. You
Speaker 2: said the Celtics are in a dynasty or deconstruction tier.
Speaker 3: Please explain that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so here's what I mean. Oh, let me send
Speaker 1: this text. If they win the title this year, I
Speaker 1: just think they have to. They are obligated to run
Speaker 1: it back with everyone. Everyone's under contract except for Horford,
Speaker 1: and they could go for a real dynasty, a three
Speaker 1: pet if they don't win the title, especially if they
Speaker 1: somehow don't make the finals. Got new ownership, there's some
Speaker 1: private equity involved. It's gonna be the most expensive team ever.
Speaker 1: I wonder if they cut salary. So the new ownership
Speaker 1: always worries me, man, Like, listen, new ownership came in
Speaker 1: with the Suns, did the opposite of cut salary, like
Speaker 1: we're going crazy. But it hasn't gone well, right, New
Speaker 1: ownership came into the MAVs and it wrecked basketball in
Speaker 1: Central Texas, just ruined it. I don't know, so that's
Speaker 1: what I listen. I think the Celtics are. I think
Speaker 1: the Celtics are the smartest bet right now to win
Speaker 1: the Championship, even though I'm picking the Lakers because I
Speaker 1: could see at least two maybe three teams coming out
Speaker 1: of the West, the Thunder obviously, the Lakers obviously, and
Speaker 1: maybe Denver. I could not see anyone coming out of
Speaker 1: the East. But Boston. I just don't think the Caves
Speaker 1: can beat them in a series. So the Celtics, to me,
Speaker 1: are the smarter play. So I'm not knocking them, but
Speaker 1: if they don't win, tough one, tough one, tough one,
Speaker 1: all right, let's let's go on to uh the Travis
Speaker 1: Kelcey thing, just because I want to have some fun
Speaker 1: before we go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So Travis and Jason, they saw that you were
Speaker 2: trying to come on the show and do like the cat.
Speaker 1: I wasn't trying to come on the show. They were
Speaker 1: looking for a cap expert, and I knew that. They
Speaker 1: were like I'm sure that they in the head were like,
Speaker 1: we should ask Nick, right, Oh, he's super busy.
Speaker 3: We don't want to bother him.
Speaker 1: And so I was just like, guys, don't worry about it,
Speaker 1: but go ahead.
Speaker 3: So what one hundred percent?
Speaker 2: And so they mentioned you on the show and we're
Speaker 2: just gonna play that for the fancy.
Speaker 1: Let's hear.
Speaker 5: We could go outside of the organizations and go to
Speaker 5: somebody who is just maybe he used to work in
Speaker 5: the NFL or works in the media. Nick Right threw
Speaker 5: his hat in the ring on Twitter.
Speaker 3: Nice known Kansas City chief Homer fucking love Nick Right.
Speaker 1: My god, my guy, Trav.
Speaker 3: What a delight.
Speaker 1: So here's the thing. Trav and I have not like
Speaker 1: talk talked since he's been serious with Taylor Swift, since
Speaker 1: he's been become like a super celebrity. No, I just don't.
Speaker 1: So it's the here's the thing. I didn't. I don't
Speaker 1: want to bother him during the year and then last
Speaker 1: offseason he was traveling the world with Taylor I and
Speaker 1: then at the parade last year we were going to
Speaker 1: I think get together after the parade we're during, but
Speaker 1: there was obviously the tragedy and the shooting at the parade,
Speaker 1: and so everything got a skewed. So I didn't. I
Speaker 1: haven't talked to trave in a while, so appreciate the
Speaker 1: shout out on you know, one of the world's most
Speaker 1: popular podcasts, and also to the folks. I think it's
Speaker 1: Wave that does that. Into the New Heights, I'll do it,
Speaker 1: and I'll wave my appearance fee just to help them out.
Speaker 1: They want someone to come on and really just break down.
Speaker 1: I don't have an appearance fee. Really just break down
Speaker 1: the cap. Nothing would thrill me more. All right, let
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Speaker 1: All right, demande, Let's get to these last two things
Speaker 1: before we go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So, New England signs Stefan Diggs to a three
Speaker 2: year deal that's gonna be worth a twenty six million
Speaker 2: is going to be guaranteed there, so he's obviously coming
Speaker 2: off his torn aco.
Speaker 3: I thought this was crazybe yeah, I mean I twenty.
Speaker 1: Six people are like, well, it's really just a one year,
Speaker 1: twenty six million dollar deal and then that's fine, but
Speaker 1: million he's not gonna be ready week one. So, like Diggs,
Speaker 1: Diggs was a good slot receiver last year, but the
Speaker 1: yards per catch deterioration concerns me. So here is Stefan
Speaker 1: Diggs the last three years yards per catch thirteen point two,
Speaker 1: eleven point one, ten point six. That's that's alarming. And
Speaker 1: now he's coming off an injury, and you know this
Speaker 1: is going to be And I like Drake May, but
Speaker 1: the worst quarterback play he's had in years and years
Speaker 1: and years. After all that time with Josh Allen and
Speaker 1: CJ that, I understand that they feel like they have
Speaker 1: to add a wide receiver and they have money to spend.
Speaker 1: I just don't know that. I think Digs is still
Speaker 1: a real difference maker.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say for Stefan Digg's career, like it
Speaker 2: kind of seems like you're that's where you're at in
Speaker 2: your career now, like you're kind of just it seems
Speaker 2: like you'd be done, like close to It's like, not.
Speaker 1: Good for him for getting one more payday, but yeah,
Speaker 1: not competing for anything and rough spot all right, the
Speaker 1: sweet sixteen tonight. So I gave out with our friends
Speaker 1: at DraftKings. I gave out a nice little three to
Speaker 1: one parlay yesterday plus actually three thirty to one, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna roll with that. It's going to stay pretty chalky.
Speaker 1: So I like Houston, Bama, Tennessee and Michigan State all
Speaker 1: just straight up to win, not against the spread, just
Speaker 1: straight up to win. I am if I were of
Speaker 1: the games today, the one that if I had to
Speaker 1: pick an up set, the one upset that I would
Speaker 1: go with is Arkansas over Texas Tech. I just think
Speaker 1: Coach cal I think those guys. I know they're a
Speaker 1: ten seed, but I think that's again I'm not betting it,
Speaker 1: but I would. I think that one's certainly more plausible
Speaker 1: than the other three. And tomorrow, maybe I'm crazy, but
Speaker 1: I think Michigan could beat Auburn and so but either way,
Speaker 1: I listen. We talked about this on Tuesday. The lack
Speaker 1: of upsets means we are going to get an unbelievable
Speaker 1: Sweet sixteen in the leit eight and all these games
Speaker 1: should be close, they should be good, and I can't
Speaker 1: wait for it. And I'm also excited to see if
Speaker 1: Duke can kind of, you know, finish this thing off,
Speaker 1: or if someone's gonna clip them. Duke was the smart bet,
Speaker 1: there's no doubt about it. And the team I picked Tennessee,
Speaker 1: they got their hands full with Kentucky tomorrow, so like
Speaker 1: that's that's going to be a war. Just to get
Speaker 1: to Houston. Just have a chance to get to Duke.
Speaker 1: But I wonder if someone can clip Duke or if
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