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Speaker 1: This is straight fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up, trick Fire? It's me Jason MacIntyre, Straight fire.

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Speaker 2: Or Tuesday, March the fourth, it's franchise tag deadline day

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Speaker 2: in the NFL. Oh boy, some excitement is coming. We

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Speaker 2: got some news on Monday that T Higgins will be

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Speaker 2: staying with the Bungles second year franchise tag. I don't

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Speaker 2: think he's happy, that's my guess. We'll dive into that. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: Sam Donald and the Vikings it doesn't appear that they

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Speaker 2: will be tagging him, which would surprise nobody. And then,

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Speaker 2: of course, in the NBA, some kind of crappy news

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Speaker 2: with the Kyrie Irving injury last night. Not great at all.

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Speaker 2: Duke continues to smother and I mean obliterate folks. They

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Speaker 2: are the easiest bet in college basketball right now. Just

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Speaker 2: throw them in a parlay at Locke City. But we

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Speaker 2: gotta start in the NFL. Obviously, this T Higgins news

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Speaker 2: is significant. Pick a big chess piece off the board.

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Speaker 2: I thought Higgins was maybe the top three agent. I

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Speaker 2: would sooner take him over any of the quarterbacks, assuming

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Speaker 2: you already have a quarterback. I know defensive players matter,

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Speaker 2: pass rush offensive line. But T Higgins is I think

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Speaker 2: he's him. Love what I see from that guy carried

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Speaker 2: me to a fantasy football championship this year. Ha ha.

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Speaker 2: But like the Chargers are in desperate need of a

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Speaker 2: number one. Okay, Maconkie's nice, Quentin Johnson's solid, but they

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Speaker 2: And so I thought the Chargers would definitely be in

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Speaker 2: with all their cap room, would just be like backing

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Speaker 2: up the brinks, and the Bengals said, no, we're gonna

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Speaker 2: franchise tag him. He's gonna be ours. Now we know

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Speaker 2: historically this kind of thing does not end well. The

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Speaker 2: Washington with they might have been the Redskins, Commanders Team,

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Speaker 2: Washington Team, whatever they were. They tagged Kirk Cousins twice

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Speaker 2: in a row, butchered it and Kirk Cousins ended up leaving.

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Speaker 2: They got left high and drive for a couple of years.

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Speaker 2: Then they bounced back with James Daniels. T Higgins turns

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Speaker 2: twenty or just turned twenty six in January still in

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Speaker 2: his prime. Okay, they're gonna lose him after I just

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Speaker 2: I don't love the franchise tag. Why not sign him

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Speaker 2: to a deal now, I guess he hasn't really responded yet.

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Speaker 2: Maybe he'll chime in when it becomes official, and he's

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Speaker 2: holding out hope that that something else will emerge. But

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Speaker 2: you kind of feel bad for t Higgins. He's not

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Speaker 2: getting paid. Jamar Chase is gonna get paid. Burrow got paid.

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Speaker 2: And I don't know if this is a playoff team

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Speaker 2: the mixed. Still, Jets, we know are are garbage because

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Speaker 2: they're my team. Of course, That's why I think the

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Speaker 2: Jags probably bounce back with a healthy Trevor Lawrence. It's

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Speaker 2: not a lock Bengals to go to the playoffs. They

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Speaker 2: were one of my Super Bowl picks at the beginning

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Speaker 2: of last season. I thought they would be very good,

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Speaker 2: and they just have no defense. They've given up forty

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Speaker 2: points seemingly every game and they're keeping their offense together.

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Speaker 2: So Higgins not an option for anyone. I do wonder, Rob,

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Speaker 2: you're a Devontae Adams guy. Dating back to his Raiders' days,

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Speaker 2: Devanta Adams was with Aaron Rodgers on the Packers, then

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Speaker 2: to trade him. Nobody wants to pay him thirty five

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Speaker 2: kind of an insane number. That being said, with Higgins

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Speaker 2: don't see why that is insane. The Commanders had their

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Speaker 2: I don't know, Rob G. Maybe I'm being too optimistic

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Speaker 3: Head say you're being a little too optimistic about the Jets.

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Speaker 4: I mean, considering my one year as a Jets fan

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Speaker 3: Look, this whole situation with T.

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Speaker 4: Higgins is and not just from a Raider fan, it's

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Speaker 4: disappointing because what makes the NBA so interesting year round

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Speaker 4: he's not. Even like big names go to different cities

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Speaker 4: And for my money, if you take out quarter of

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Speaker 4: the quarterback is a totally different conversation.

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Speaker 4: T Higgins was the one guy I thought who legitimately

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Speaker 4: was a report actually that came out on early Monday morning,

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Speaker 4: Dan and Rusini said they made an offer to Jamar

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Speaker 3: It's like, how could you possibly be far apart.

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Speaker 4: At this point with a guy like Jamar Chase when

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Speaker 4: Give him a million and a half million dollars more,

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Speaker 4: get it done. They should not be complicated. Same thing

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Speaker 4: can be said about T Higgins. You know, he wants

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Speaker 4: to get paid like a number one. He's been productive

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Speaker 4: invest in one of their best players, Hew, invest in

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Speaker 4: that Jamar Chase and t Higgins are locked up long term.

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Speaker 3: The three of us are gonna go together.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and they can't get it done. So you take

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Speaker 4: such a big chess piece off the board for what

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Speaker 4: this fake idea that you're going for this year. Like

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Speaker 4: what Cincinnati is doing is kicking the can down the road,

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Speaker 4: but not in a good way. And if we learned

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Speaker 4: anything from the Dallas Cowboys last year, it behooves you

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Speaker 4: Let's say you don't get it done here in the

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Speaker 4: It's not gonna be like top jeff justin Jefferson money,

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Speaker 4: but that is gonna be the starting point for any

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Speaker 4: t Higgins contract, right.

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Speaker 4: want to keep Baker, Godwin and Evans together because we're

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Speaker 4: new offensive coordinator in house. We want to have as

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Speaker 4: much synergy as possible because we think we can win

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Speaker 4: this division. The division is not very good. And when

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Speaker 2: Interesting. I'm looking at the Bucks free agents. It's Levante

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 2: I don't see why not absolutely going to be the Saints.

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Speaker 4: And to go back to an original point, the t

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Speaker 4: You could make the case given his productivity number one

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Speaker 4: He's pounding on the sidelines, and that he did not

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Speaker 4: come off looking very good on that In that show,

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Speaker 4: still think Devantae Adams is a great ride receiver, but

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Speaker 4: I don't think the price of what you would expect

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Speaker 4: He's advanced age Keenan Allen's thirty three. DeAndre Hopkins look

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Speaker 4: And then he's like, oh, Darius Slayton, Hollywood Brown, like,

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Speaker 2: March is Crazy, March Madness, Free Agency. Obviously, NBA is

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Speaker 3: In the way Zion Williams.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but he's he's so good man.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's nice. And I have I'm gonna be putting

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports. I like, you have to have a future

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Speaker 2: Obviously big game tonight, Warriors at Nick's, Steph Curry at MSG.

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Speaker 2: It's going to be a show. We know that Lakers

434
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Speaker 2: are hosting Zion and which should be a bloodbath the

435
00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:29,239
Speaker 2: Pelican stink. That being said, the big story right now

436
00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:31,760
Speaker 2: in the NBA is what is and we're still waiting

437
00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:36,040
Speaker 2: on word on how bad Kyrie Irving's injury is. Drove

438
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Speaker 2: the lane. Couldn't tell if he fully stepped on the

439
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Speaker 2: oppollionon or just landed hard, but it definitely looked like

440
00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:47,000
Speaker 2: his knee gave out. He went down in a nod

441
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Speaker 2: to Kobe, he went to the free throw line, shot

442
00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:52,199
Speaker 2: the free throws. You could see tears coming out of

443
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Speaker 2: his eyes as he's shooting the free throws. His teammates

444
00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:58,560
Speaker 2: like carried him off the court. It did not look

445
00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:01,679
Speaker 2: good there the early return to Arts of Sprain. That

446
00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:04,640
Speaker 2: would be the best case scenario. This is a walking

447
00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:09,240
Speaker 2: wounded Mavericks team that just I mean, they end up

448
00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:13,400
Speaker 2: getting smashed by the Kings. They are not. I don't

449
00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:15,199
Speaker 2: want to say they're down bad. But you know, when

450
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Speaker 2: you lose Kyrie that early in the game and you've

451
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Speaker 2: got to rely on Ky Jones, the former Texas big

452
00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:28,200
Speaker 2: man to play heavy minutes, super Max, Christie Logan thirty

453
00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:32,000
Speaker 2: four minutes, their starters just got obliterated early and often

454
00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:37,359
Speaker 2: it's just a crap season for Dallas. Like you know,

455
00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:40,560
Speaker 2: I guess you trade for Anthony Davis rich injury history.

456
00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:44,120
Speaker 2: Kyrie Irving has had an injury history, and now your

457
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Speaker 2: two bigs are out plays not do anything like they're

458
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Speaker 2: starting Dante Exem Dwight Powell, Kessler Edwards. I don't know, man,

459
00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:53,600
Speaker 2: this could go I mean, we already think that the

460
00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:56,280
Speaker 2: trade for Luca is gonna go down in history is

461
00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:59,000
Speaker 2: one of the worst of all time. I saw a

462
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Speaker 2: tweet that the MAVs don't control their own first round

463
00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:09,680
Speaker 2: picks in twenty seven twenty eight, twenty nine, and thirty. Jeez,

464
00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:16,119
Speaker 2: this this could go very south, very quickly. And you know,

465
00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:18,600
Speaker 2: with every injury, with every loss, Nico Harrison, how did

466
00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:21,520
Speaker 2: you screw us like this? And compounding that matters, the

467
00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:24,639
Speaker 2: Lakers are rolling Luca coming off his best game as

468
00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:26,919
Speaker 2: a Laker from shooting through three. I think you and

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Speaker 2: I agreed, lucas not even close to one hundred percent.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I feel for the MAVs, Rob, but I

471
00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:35,960
Speaker 2: mean I'm just so geeked about the Lakers right now.

472
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Speaker 2: It's stuff to feel that bad. I know you're fired up.

473
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, first and foremost, we hope Kyrie's okay.

474
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Speaker 4: Hopefully it's not as bad as it looked, because it

475
00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:46,399
Speaker 4: looked really bad. And to your point, when he was

476
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Speaker 4: crying shooting those free throws and there's a twenty pauses

477
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Speaker 4: before he actually goes up to release and he says

478
00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:53,560
Speaker 4: thank you God under his breath, yeah I saw that.

479
00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:56,439
Speaker 4: And when you get Lebron James tweeting about you in

480
00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:59,840
Speaker 4: the wheel overnight hours, that tells me it's not very good,

481
00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:02,439
Speaker 4: because you know, I don't think Lebron throws up a

482
00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:05,360
Speaker 4: tweet like that, saying like praise up to Kyrie if

483
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:08,280
Speaker 4: it's your basic twisted knee and he's out for two

484
00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:10,360
Speaker 4: to three, you know, I don't I don't see that happening.

485
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Speaker 4: But I don't feel bad for the MAVs because, you know,

486
00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:21,040
Speaker 4: as an organization, the way they've handled this Luca thing

487
00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:23,840
Speaker 4: has been unbecoming of an NBA franchise, And I think

488
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Speaker 4: that I'm not gonna say it's karma, but it's just,

489
00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:28,240
Speaker 4: you know, it's hard to feel bad for a franchise

490
00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:30,639
Speaker 4: that that's acted in such a way.

491
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Speaker 3: I feel terrible for Kyrie Irving.

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Speaker 4: Number one and MAVs fans number two, because they didn't

493
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Speaker 4: ask for this. Nine months ago, they were in the

494
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Speaker 4: NBA Finals, thinking that their window was as wide open

495
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Speaker 4: as anybody in the Western Conference.

496
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Speaker 3: You got, you got the best.

497
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Speaker 4: Young player arguably in the league in Luka Dancic. You

498
00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:54,159
Speaker 4: got a number two in Kyrie Irving, who seems to be,

499
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Speaker 4: you know, on the right path mentally and emotionally, and

500
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Speaker 4: your team is building something. Now you flash forward, Luca's gone.

501
00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:06,320
Speaker 4: Kyrie at least is temporarily gone. A d the guy

502
00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:09,600
Speaker 4: you acquired, and the Luca trade is hurt Derek Lively's hurt,

503
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:12,600
Speaker 4: Daniel Gaffer's hurt, Kayla Martin's hurrt PJ. Washington out of

504
00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:15,520
Speaker 4: the lineup. And then on top of this, I don't

505
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:19,760
Speaker 4: know if you even saw this. On Monday, for whatever reason,

506
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:24,000
Speaker 4: and they say it's a coincidence, the MAVs announced that

507
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Speaker 4: they are raising the ticket prices for next season by

508
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Speaker 4: eight percent.

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Speaker 2: Come on, no way.

510
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Speaker 4: Like, what did Dallas Mavericks fans do to deserve this

511
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:40,760
Speaker 4: whammy after whammy after whammy in the last two months.

512
00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:44,440
Speaker 2: It's it's become it's you can't.

513
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:47,960
Speaker 4: Even laugh at it. It's so sad, like this is

514
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:53,120
Speaker 4: just terrible. And again, hopefully Kyrie is okay because they're

515
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:55,359
Speaker 4: currently three and a half games up on the playing

516
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:57,720
Speaker 4: over the Phoenix Suns. The Phoenix does look like they've

517
00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:00,760
Speaker 4: quit on the season, so they might get regardless, but

518
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:03,920
Speaker 4: I'm not expecting much out of Dallas as much.

519
00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:04,240
Speaker 5: As we like.

520
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:08,359
Speaker 2: Here's the other thing, Miico Harrison, such a miscalculation. The

521
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,800
Speaker 2: reason Kyrie Irving worked was because he was playing the

522
00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 2: number two to Luca. The reason that gafferd and PJ.

523
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:19,840
Speaker 2: Washington fit so seamlessly. Gaffer was splitting time with Lively,

524
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:24,159
Speaker 2: he was catching lobs from Luca. Okay, PJ Washington was

525
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:28,280
Speaker 2: hitting corner threes, like all that stuff goes away where

526
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:30,640
Speaker 2: there's no Luca and Kyrie on the court, Like it's

527
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:32,920
Speaker 2: just not the same. And the idea that they thought

528
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Speaker 2: that this could be the same, I don't know, Rob,

529
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:39,320
Speaker 2: the more and more you think about it, and yes,

530
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:42,080
Speaker 2: I have heard I'm not gonna say that, but you

531
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:48,040
Speaker 2: hear that, like, man, the conspiracy theorists have stuff and

532
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:49,680
Speaker 2: you're like, no way, no way, no way, And then

533
00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 2: you know you start thinking, you're like, wait a minute,

534
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:56,160
Speaker 2: what really went down between Nico and Luca.

535
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Speaker 2: There had to be a breaking point, right, There's no

540
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:13,040
Speaker 2: way you could just come upon this like, oh, Luca,

541
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:15,360
Speaker 2: he's slow to come back because he's fat and he's

542
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:17,840
Speaker 2: drinking beer and he's doing the hookah, Like there's just

543
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 2: no way you trade him for that. There had to

544
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:24,320
Speaker 2: have been some singular event that maybe was the last straw,

545
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:26,400
Speaker 2: if you will. There had to be something, Rob, don't

546
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 2: you think that. I I just I mean again, Nico

547
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:31,399
Speaker 2: Harrison has had a lot of hits as a GM,

548
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:35,720
Speaker 2: but this is such a whiff that nobody's gonna remember

549
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:36,399
Speaker 2: any of the hits.

550
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:41,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, and all the hits became hits because of Luka Doncic. Yeah,

551
00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:43,960
Speaker 4: they were all hits because they'd all revolved around the

552
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:44,800
Speaker 4: sun that is Luca.

553
00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:48,200
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what I don't particularly, I mean, I'll lie.

554
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 4: I love dabbling in the conspiracy theory tinfoil hats. I

555
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:58,720
Speaker 4: think that's fun, it's entertaining. And while I disagree with

556
00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:01,320
Speaker 4: the idea that there was one singular moment, I think

557
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:02,960
Speaker 4: it had to have been accumulation of things.

558
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:04,880
Speaker 3: I will say I.

559
00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:08,760
Speaker 4: Believe that more than the one going around that this

560
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:12,400
Speaker 4: was an effort to tank the franchise, alienate the fan

561
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:13,879
Speaker 4: base so they can move to Las Vegas.

562
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 2: Because IVE heard that one has heard that. I thought

563
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:17,600
Speaker 2: you were gonna mention the whole that we don't want

564
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:19,040
Speaker 2: to pay him three hundred and forty five million.

565
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 4: Nonsense, No, I mean the price is the price now,

566
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:26,359
Speaker 4: Like it sounds crazy to you and I because we don't, well,

567
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 4: it sounds crazy to me because I don't make a

568
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 4: kind of money. I know you and Colin are kind

569
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:30,919
Speaker 4: of you know, you're in that.

570
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:35,240
Speaker 5: Upper upper knee in Collin Me not me, bro, But

571
00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 5: like that's the going rate now, like very soon, Jason

572
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 5: Tatum's gonna have a contract that's gonna be closing in

573
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:42,400
Speaker 5: like eighty.

574
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 3: Million dollars a year by the end.

575
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, Jaalen Brown, same deal, right, Jayalen Brown is gonna

576
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 4: have a contract like that when Victor Winn Benyama is

577
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:52,000
Speaker 4: super Max eligible at his whatever seventh, eight, nine, ten season,

578
00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:55,040
Speaker 4: He's gonna be making one hundred million dollars plus a season.

579
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 4: Like that's just gonna be the price. So I don't

580
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 4: think that that's the issue. I think, like I said,

581
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 4: I don't like dabbling too much in the conspiracy theory.

582
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:07,520
Speaker 3: But whether it was a single moment with Luca or

583
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:08,920
Speaker 3: this is the idea.

584
00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 4: Where the ownership really wanted that casino next to the

585
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 4: arena and they shot it down because the didn't allow

586
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 4: casinos in Texas and this is a way for them

587
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,040
Speaker 4: to piss off the Dallas fan base so much to

588
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 4: a point, Oh wait, did move to Las Vegas?

589
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:26,640
Speaker 2: I mean, hold up, hold it that that's interesting. So

590
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:32,800
Speaker 2: I didn't hear about the casino thing. Interesting, Okay, So

591
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 2: I think I told you this when the MAVs announced

592
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:40,840
Speaker 2: that Cuban was selling, I think that was it. I

593
00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 2: fished around and I was like, what's going on. Something

594
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:44,600
Speaker 2: big must be going on, and they were like, Oh,

595
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 2: they want to build this huge super complex in the

596
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:51,640
Speaker 2: Dallas area where they're making it like an LA Live situation.

597
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:54,520
Speaker 2: Philadelphia has a similar when you get all the ballparks

598
00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:58,080
Speaker 2: like in the same area, you make it hotels, bars, restaurant,

599
00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 2: you make it like a destination, right and now, because

600
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:03,960
Speaker 2: gamble is legal, you get casinos in there. So I

601
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,040
Speaker 2: had heard that that was the game plan for Dallas.

602
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:09,240
Speaker 2: Now what you're saying is the casino got mixed and

603
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 2: now the team is what threatening to move.

604
00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 4: I mean, that's what the NBA Reddit crowd kind of

605
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:18,160
Speaker 4: stuff that that's what's out there. Again, I don't think

606
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:21,280
Speaker 4: I necessarily believe that, because I believe and now this

607
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:23,760
Speaker 4: is another conspiracy, I believe the NBA already has a

608
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:24,800
Speaker 4: backdoor deal for Vegas.

609
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:26,320
Speaker 3: I think Lebron's getting that franchise.

610
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:31,520
Speaker 2: Lebron's getting it. Yeah, he's not retiring anytime soon.

611
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:33,800
Speaker 4: So I mean, they're not gonna be ready for several

612
00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:36,160
Speaker 4: years anyways, right to have the arena and all that stuff.

613
00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 4: But I think that there is a wink wink, nudge

614
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 4: nudge kind of deal that Hey, there might be guys

615
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 4: Jeff Bezos, you know, Eli must depending what happens there

616
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:48,160
Speaker 4: with the presidency, who are gonna have more liquid assets

617
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:51,240
Speaker 4: where they could buy or bid higher number for that

618
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:54,320
Speaker 4: Vegas franchise. But they say, hey, Lebron, you and your

619
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 4: group get them together. Whoever these hedge funt guys are,

620
00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:58,520
Speaker 4: You're gonna get the first crack at it.

621
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Speaker 2: I don't hate that. We'll wrap up with this rop

622
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 2: And this just hit me as I was listening to you.

623
00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:09,640
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say some names here. Okay, Well, first of all,

624
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 2: the NBA has had this big push because they're they're

625
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:16,720
Speaker 2: they're leaning into this social media nonsense of the players

626
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:20,280
Speaker 2: don't play. Nobody ever plays. It's so stupid. They're lazy,

627
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:23,680
Speaker 2: they don't want to play hard, and the dumb NBA

628
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:25,240
Speaker 2: is now enacting all these You got to play a

629
00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 2: lot of rules to be eligible for the awards, which

630
00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:30,480
Speaker 2: makes you eligible for the super Max and all that.

631
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 2: So players are playing more and sitting less. I'm gonna

632
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 2: say three names for you, Joel Embiid, Victor Wembin Yama,

633
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 2: Kyrie Irving, assuming the Kyrie Irving thing is bad now

634
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 2: Webben Yama blood clots. Maybe you chuck it up to

635
00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 2: no big deal. We'll see on Kyrie.

636
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:51,960
Speaker 4: Uh.

637
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 2: I know I'm in the minority rope. I want my

638
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 2: players playing less games. I don't give a rats ass

639
00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:01,200
Speaker 2: that Michael Jordan played eighty two games five seasons in

640
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:05,960
Speaker 2: a row. Who cares? Who cares? I want Lebron right

641
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 2: around sixty six to seventy and I want him fresh

642
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 2: for the playoffs. And I know, Jay, there is dubious

643
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 2: collection between playing a lot and injuries. Okay, anybody who

644
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 2: I get it. There isn't a ton of data that

645
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 2: one thousand percent backs that up. If you play eighty games,

646
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Speaker 2: you will get hurt. No, no, but your odds of

647
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:32,560
Speaker 2: getting hurt go up the more you play. And especially,

648
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 2: wouldn't you know it, em Beat and Kyrie are in

649
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 2: their thirties. Now, Lebron, a physical Marvel, is in his forties.

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Speaker 2: We need Lebron in the playoffs. Okay, we need Luca

651
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:49,160
Speaker 2: in the playoffs. We need stars in the playoffs. Okay,

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00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 2: this is not that different than backup quarterbacks. You guys,

653
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,040
Speaker 2: remember when Joe Flacco had that magical room with the

654
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:57,080
Speaker 2: Browns got to the playoffs. What happened against the Titans.

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00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:01,320
Speaker 2: It's proba like thirty backup quarter do not fare well

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00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:04,520
Speaker 2: in the playoffs. They don't win games. It's really really

657
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 2: friggin tough. Now, Nick Foles, big dick, Nick, Yeah he

658
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 2: came through. Okay, fine, how many of those? How many

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00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:12,240
Speaker 2: other examples are there that if usually if you have

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00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 2: a backup quarterback, you're getting smashed? So again, I know,

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00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 2: players gotta play. Look at these guys spending money all

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00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:22,959
Speaker 2: those tickets. Amen, you know, I get it you're upset

663
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:26,080
Speaker 2: that you paid and John Morant sitting out or whatever.

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Speaker 2: But you know what, it ain't always about you. Maybe

665
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:33,880
Speaker 2: it's about everybody else. And maybe everybody else would rather

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00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:39,320
Speaker 2: watch job Morant in the first round well, or Nicola

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00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:43,000
Speaker 2: Jokic or Lebron. I mean, we're all excited now that

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00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 2: Steph Curry and the Warriors are up to the sixth seed.

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00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 2: They were looking at missing the playoffs for the Jimmy

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00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 2: Butler deal. Now it's like, yes, we got Curry, We

671
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:53,600
Speaker 2: got Curry in the playoffs, we got Lebron Kawhi Leonard's

672
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 2: actually playing basketball games.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: So like you know, that to me is exciting.

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Speaker 1: Rob.

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Speaker 2: I know it's going to be a minority taken and

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00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:05,240
Speaker 2: people are gonna hate it, but I'm sorry. I want

678
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 2: my guys in the playoffs. And no Embiide kind of

679
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:11,360
Speaker 2: sort of stinks, Philly was ascending. No Wee Mignall obviously stinks.

680
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 2: Blood clots will give it, you know, a pass. And

681
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:18,040
Speaker 2: then Kyrie Irving. That's that's terrible. I mean, Dallas was

682
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:20,400
Speaker 2: such a show last year in the playoffs. Look at

683
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 2: that Minnesota series, the OKC series phenomenal. So I don't know,

684
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Speaker 2: I'm ranting and I don't know. I just want my

685
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 2: guys healthy.

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Speaker 4: That's it didn't seem with too much to ask. I mean,

687
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:33,320
Speaker 4: I know we're up against its all to make it.

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00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:37,279
Speaker 4: QUI here's the question for you. This could be its

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00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 4: own pot in itself. Are you the kind of guy

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Speaker 4: who would rather have fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years of Steph

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Speaker 4: Curry playing sixty five games or ten eleven twelve years

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Speaker 4: of Steph Curry paying eighty two oh that's a no,

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Speaker 4: that's ultimately that's both of the conversation.

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Speaker 2: Who on earth would say, yeah, I want fewer years

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Speaker 2: of Steph Curry but that just I'm not going to

696
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:06,319
Speaker 2: get into it with you, but that would be me.

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Speaker 3: Really, I'd rather my guys play.

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Speaker 2: So you would have rather had two fewer years of

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Speaker 2: of Kobe?

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Speaker 4: And just to see what a fewer years of Kobe?

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Speaker 4: You know, because of all the injuries.

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Speaker 2: Let's see when did Kobe We clearly look up his stats,

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00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:26,719
Speaker 2: I forget was he was he the like thirty seven.

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00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:28,960
Speaker 3: He was broke down like for forty Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Thirty seven was his final season and uh he averaged

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00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:35,920
Speaker 2: like seventeen points a game. Yeah, but thirty five, thirty six,

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Speaker 2: thirty seven were brutal. I mean, this goes back to

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Speaker 2: like Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, I know, Hiv, Isaiah Thomason, Jordan.

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00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:47,360
Speaker 2: I mean, but remember Jordan also quit to go play baseball.

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Speaker 2: So we got like a year and a half vacation,

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Speaker 2: get twice, I mean. And that's the other thing, like

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Speaker 2: I would much again, what what are what are games

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Speaker 2: in January February March? Like how rare are those that

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Speaker 2: you remember? You were remember the playoff games. I can

715
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:04,280
Speaker 2: still remember Lebron locking up d Rose. Do you remember

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00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:06,719
Speaker 2: that series? M h, yeah, I mean that was phenomenal.

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00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:09,800
Speaker 2: I can't tell you any like regular season games really

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00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:12,919
Speaker 2: really hard to remember, but like that series where Derrek

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00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 2: Rose won the MVP and he was cooking and all

720
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 2: of a sudden, Lebron's like, guys, I got this, and

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Speaker 2: that was it for Derrick Rose. You know, I can

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Speaker 2: remember a lot of Lebron playoffronts. Lebron in the playoffs

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Speaker 2: against Deshaun Stevenston and the Wizards. That was a battle.

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00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:30,279
Speaker 2: Those guys hated each other. So I mean, so I

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Speaker 2: don't know I lean on playoffs, but I know I'm

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Speaker 2: sure there's a segment of the population out there who's like, no, Jay,

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00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:37,960
Speaker 2: you're wrong, we should play eighty two. I don't know, man,

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Speaker 2: Seth Curry looks pretty damn good at thirty six. I mean,

729
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 2: look at Kevin Durant, what's he thirty seven?

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Speaker 3: Thirty seven?

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Speaker 2: He's still top fifteen in the league in scoring. I

732
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 2: know he's out winning anything, but I don't know that

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Speaker 2: that's totally on him. By the way. Interesting note, former

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00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:55,280
Speaker 2: Sons coach Frank Vogel is going to be at something

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Speaker 2: that I may pop into Wednesday, So if you have

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Speaker 2: any you know, questions you want me to ask for

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Speaker 2: vocal about his time in Phoenix. Rob, You guys, we

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Speaker 2: don't want to hear about Lakers stories. I would like

739
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 2: to hear how miserable the Phoenix situation? I mean, Rob,

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Speaker 2: that was he was one and done?

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah?

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Speaker 4: Is Kevin Durant as miserable as he seems online?

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00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 3: What I want to know?

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00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:23,239
Speaker 2: That's a great question. I'll pull him to the side

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00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:24,719
Speaker 2: and try to ask him that. All right, this is

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Speaker 2: a long one. I'm out see tomorrow.