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Speaker 1: Good morning, sweet world, and welcome to the No Dunks

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Speaker 1: Podcast on the Athletic Network, Wednesday, March fourth. I'm Jay

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Speaker 1: Skeets and alongside me as always task Mellis. Hey everybody, Hey, tasky,

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Speaker 1: we got the bearded one. Tray Kirby, Hey, hey yo,

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Speaker 1: international man of mystery taking it to the wood shop.

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Speaker 3: Lee Ellis friend.

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Speaker 2: Lely.

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Speaker 1: And last but not Lea's making the magic happen.

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Speaker 4: It's JD.

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Speaker 1: Hello, there is and here we are. Guys. Follow us

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Speaker 1: So you can see Lee's wood shop doppelganger. This one

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Speaker 1: is unreal, even you agree it looks like you.

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Speaker 3: When I saw it in the stories there, I thought,

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Speaker 3: Holy hell, that's me. And then when I came full screen,

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Speaker 3: I said, wow, that's not quite maybe, but it's pretty

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Speaker 1: Can you build yourself a birdhouse or something like that?

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Speaker 3: No, but let's try to mention. Yesterday on the On

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Speaker 3: the Beach Step show, I think it was a bit

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Speaker 3: Ikia fanage. I can put some of that stuff together.

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Speaker 1: Same thing.

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Speaker 1: comments to no Dunks at the Athletic dot Com. You

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Speaker 1: said it there, lead We hit the beach yesterday. Another

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Speaker 1: classic topics included Middleton and McCollum and beal as go

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Speaker 1: to guys, whether Rudy Gobert is worth a super Max contract.

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Speaker 1: We got into team captains. We talked about guards, elite

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Speaker 1: defensive guards, maybe winning defensive Player of the Year. You

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Speaker 1: talked a bunch of tennis I did, Yes, a bunch

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Speaker 1: of tennis knowledge on us and so much more so

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Speaker 1: that one's up. We dropped out a day earlier. So

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Speaker 1: go check out that beach at step In podcast, and

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Speaker 1: I mean check it out on YouTube solely for the

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Firefest, it's unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: You didn't even tell any of us here in the office.

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Speaker 1: I'm just like, okay, let's see if this works. Make

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Speaker 5: Yeah, sometimes I like to spring things on you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, how did you find a clip of a man's toes?

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Speaker 5: It's a website that that has free footage for people

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Speaker 6: I think a woman's foot. That's a man very well.

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Speaker 3: I don't know who my friend Toes offered to be

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Speaker 3: But it's a show for our listeners and our fans,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I hate looking at people's feet. I hate looking

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Speaker 1: my weird feet walking up the bay.

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Speaker 1: Your foot called that?

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Speaker 1: All right, well we're gonna get into is this news?

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Speaker 1: I mean, last night we had both LA teams, picking

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Speaker 1: Whoops, my bad. The Raps snapped their three game losing

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Speaker 1: the first one guys from ESPN. Karros Lavert torches the

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Speaker 6: It's news, baby. Why because it's time to watch Karas

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Speaker 3: because some of those shots who were hitting that step

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it sucks so good, but you're right he had

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Speaker 3: And you know, the three crucial free throws there to

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Speaker 1: He put his hand in the cookie jar and probably too.

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Speaker 3: He was frustrated because they blew a twenty one point lead.

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Speaker 3: You know that this game, you said seventeen points at

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Speaker 3: but they had some problems because Kemba Walker obviously didn't

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Speaker 3: probably thirty five grand for that one for failing to

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Speaker 6: I don't think he failed to actually, I think he

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Speaker 6: you look at it, but it looks bad because there's

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Speaker 1: It's like Igodola, like right, Yeah, you're just those guys

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Speaker 1: But that all said, you had three Celtics around him,

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Speaker 1: you are up. He's got to hit another miracle shot.

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Speaker 1: You probably shouldn't reach it.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, but I think the referee is just saying,

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Speaker 4: A flailing of arms going up.

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Speaker 7: I mean, and it looks like contact, and the play

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Speaker 4: It's a tough call.

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Speaker 7: But I mean, to make those three free throws at

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Speaker 7: the Nets are gonna finish seventh or eighth seed. You know,

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Speaker 7: they're gonna be playing against a really good team in

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Speaker 7: the first round of the playoffs. But between Lavert and

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Speaker 1: I would think, Yeah, I'm praying. I was very happy.

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Speaker 1: second seed. Okay, I want a two to seven Raptors

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Speaker 1: Nets game. I want that series. I mean, fly up

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Speaker 1: to Brooklyn watch a game. Why not take it in

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Speaker 1: in the first round? So right now, that's what it

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Speaker 1: like forty five days until we get to that. One

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Speaker 1: more thing with Lavert though, you know, I saw Zilla

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Speaker 1: write this in his newslater. Is this sort of a

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Speaker 1: type of statement game that can make another GM fall

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Speaker 1: in love with a guy like Harris Slippert. And I

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Speaker 1: think what Zilla's getting at here is is there, you know,

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Speaker 1: the ball really in their hands. Katie Kyrie no brainers,

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Speaker 1: and then Lavert and then Spencer. Didn't we because that's

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Speaker 1: they will they look to move one of those guys,

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Speaker 1: probably a Dinwity or an Avert in the offseason for

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Speaker 1: for other pieces, you know, either defensive pieces or just

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Speaker 1: other players to maybe fit the idea moving forward for Brooklyn.

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Speaker 1: I think it's one of them has to go. I

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Speaker 1: think you think having the four that played that rip

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Speaker 3: Simply because those two superstars that are coming in, there's

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Speaker 3: no question that one of those two guys is getting

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Speaker 3: the shots and the looks and the game winning shots

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Speaker 1: Trivia question for you guys. With Lavert going for fifty one,

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Speaker 1: Kyrie is correct. He did twice.

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Speaker 6: Danel Russell did it.

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Speaker 1: He did good call tasks.

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Speaker 4: You're honest.

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Speaker 1: Yep, you're missing another guy who did it twice. Lebron, No,

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Speaker 6: Oh no, no, no, no, Bradley bil it's.

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no, no. One of Task's favorite

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Speaker 6: Weird.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly right.

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Speaker 1: Next headline from Sports Illustrated, Tim Duncan picks up his

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Speaker 1: Yeah. It was weird though. You see all these headlines

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, but it was a good one, I guess

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Speaker 3: But that's I think it's classic that Dick Tim Duncan's

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 1: He did say this too. It's night and day to

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Speaker 6: Mitch prepped the game, Becky and will they made the calls.

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Speaker 6: I was just standing there. Yeah, that's classic tim We

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Speaker 1: It's possible. I think the news from this is some

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Speaker 1: I guess that Tim Duncan got the role as the

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Speaker 7: And I think that's a fair bit of news because

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Speaker 4: Definitely feels like it.

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Speaker 7: He's being chosen as the stand up, yelling guy every

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Speaker 4: So I wouldn't.

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Speaker 7: Imagine that Popovitch is just putting him out there to

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Speaker 6: I know that's what Twitter was raging about last night,

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Speaker 6: And we assume she'll be the first female head coach

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think that's maybe that is what Pop

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Speaker 1: w will not count officially on his record. You will

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Speaker 1: not see that on basketball references, coaching pitch. All right,

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Speaker 1: our next one. Oh, I'm so excited for this one.

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Speaker 1: Back to ESPN, Spike Lee done watching the Knicks at

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Speaker 1: MSG this season? Is this news?

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Speaker 3: It's big news, really, isn't it. I Mean he's been there,

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Speaker 3: he said, for twenty eight years. Yep, he's been going

442
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Speaker 3: to games and he has been apparently in a bit

443
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Speaker 3: of a dispute there with James Dolan and the Knick

444
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Speaker 3: staff about where he should be entering the arena blew

445
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Speaker 3: up on Tuesday, well, Monday night, I guess, and Spike

446
00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:06,080
Speaker 3: went on first take and said that's it. I'm done.

447
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Speaker 3: I'm not going there anymore. So what's he gonna do

448
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Speaker 3: with those tickets that.

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Speaker 1: He already sold them? The word on the street. Yeah,

450
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Speaker 1: so this was breaking, like during the recording of yesterday's

451
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Speaker 1: show for us, the idea of Spike going on first take,

452
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Speaker 1: and then not long after that, the unbelievable press release

453
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Speaker 1: from the Knicks. I mean, they are just on fire

454
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Speaker 1: with these and this was just chef's kiss that's one

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Speaker 1: with the grainy photo attached to Dolan shaken Spike Lee's hand,

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Speaker 1: and then the whole thing of like, no, Spike is

457
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Speaker 1: making this a big deal. This is laughable. We've asked

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Speaker 1: him a million times just coming to a different entrance, but

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Speaker 1: it is. It's crazy. After the Knicks actually picked up

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Speaker 1: a win, Oh my god, Leon Rose is there now

461
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Speaker 1: as the president. We were talking him up yesterday, you know,

462
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Speaker 1: we had the poll like do you have any sort

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Speaker 1: of confidence in him maybe to turn this around? Leon

464
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Speaker 1: Rosen like some of us like mah, some of us

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Speaker 1: maybe a little bit, can't get much lower. And then

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Speaker 1: it somehow got worse because every voted downgraded. I mean,

467
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Speaker 1: if you voted may, you now voted low love. If

468
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Speaker 1: you voted low, you now voted a good joke. So

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Speaker 1: I'm on a good joke because obviously nothing is going

470
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Speaker 1: to change. Spike Lee also says he was set up

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Speaker 1: with the picture.

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Speaker 4: He says that he.

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Speaker 7: Thought there was a garden photographer just waiting to capture

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Speaker 7: the moment that those two shook, just so that they

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Speaker 7: could have a press release about it.

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Speaker 4: It's honestly incredible.

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Speaker 7: But I mean, what Spike Lee went to the wrong

478
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Speaker 7: entrance for the first time in thirty years?

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Speaker 6: Come on, who and who gives a crap? That's all

480
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Speaker 6: they have. All the Knicks have is Spike Lee and

481
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Speaker 6: twenty light seasons.

482
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Speaker 7: The most recognizable guy in the entire arena. Sure, come on,

483
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Speaker 7: in this way, how hard is that?

484
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Speaker 6: It's nuts? They're so lucky that they play in such

485
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Speaker 6: a giant city in New York and people will still

486
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Speaker 6: go play there at some point, because otherwise, if it

487
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Speaker 6: was a small market team that releases press releases about

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Speaker 6: press releases over and over and over and tries to

489
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Speaker 6: put out the receipts, as Zach Harper put with these photos. Hey, hey, hey,

490
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Speaker 6: he went in the wrong entrance. Hey, it's all on him, Like,

491
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Speaker 6: forget about the details, forget those should be thrown out.

492
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Speaker 6: They just keeping up over and over and over again.

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Speaker 6: I don't want to get into the soap opera stuff

494
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Speaker 6: about Spike Lee and all that. Leon Roe should apologize

495
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Speaker 6: and James Dolan, because we know James Dolan isn't gonna apologize.

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Speaker 6: He's just come out and say, like I would hope

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Speaker 6: that that's happening behind the scenes, but he should make

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Speaker 6: it public as well. He should say someone this is

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Speaker 6: my first sort of business. I'm gonna apologize to this

500
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Speaker 6: guy because we messed the heck up. He's been paying

501
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Speaker 6: literally millions dollar dollars you think, and so he doesn't

502
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Speaker 6: care about these next if you have twenty games or whatever,

503
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Speaker 6: ten home games, he doesn't care about that. Like that's

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Speaker 6: he should donate it, and that's great, and don't go back.

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Speaker 6: It's it's a shame. It really is a shame.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, Spike went on after the press release,

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Speaker 1: he went on a radio show in New York, the

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Speaker 1: Michael Kay Show, and said the whole statement was just

509
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Speaker 1: a bold faced lie. I mean, Spike is saying Dolan

510
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Speaker 1: is just straight up lying because of his ego and

511
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Speaker 1: because he's a madman and it's insane, and like that

512
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Speaker 1: press release, you can't convince me otherwise that basically James

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Speaker 1: Dolan probably walked into a room or picked up his

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Speaker 1: phone with whoever was in the PR department and said,

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Speaker 1: all right, write this. You know this is laughable. I

516
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Speaker 1: mean to the point where it says Jim in the

517
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Speaker 1: damp press release and don't even say like, mister James Dolan,

518
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Speaker 1: Like all these press releases are so uptight and they're

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Speaker 1: so formal. It says Jim.

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Speaker 6: And even Spike is calling James Dolan mister. Spike remains

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Speaker 6: respectful despite all this calling him, I'm mister.

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Speaker 1: I went on The Raptor's Republic podcast yesterday with with

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Speaker 1: Sam Folk. We were talking about this because it had

524
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Speaker 1: just happened, and Sam was like, this feels like someone

525
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Speaker 1: wrote a blog post about like twenty funny things that'll

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Speaker 1: happen to the Knicks this year, and it would be

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Speaker 1: like number you know, five, or sixth on the list.

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Speaker 1: Spike Lee gets into a dole and and there's a

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Speaker 1: back and forth and he and you know, like that

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Speaker 1: sounds like such a like that's a funny joke. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: good one, be a great one. I have a little chuckle,

532
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Speaker 1: move on. And it actually came true.

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Speaker 3: Well, the incident of with Les Charles Ugly, one of

534
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Speaker 3: the most beloved nick s plais of old time. That

535
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Speaker 3: was ugly, and that got even uglier again this season,

536
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Speaker 3: and now the most recognizable and beloved of the Knicks

537
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Speaker 3: is also Lake Lee.

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Speaker 1: I mean you watched the first take. He was so pissed. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean he is so fired up, like he's like,

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Speaker 1: let me finish. He's yelling at moll He's like he's

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Speaker 1: just like, let me get this off my chest. Like

542
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Speaker 1: I have been the good soldier being a Knicks fan

543
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Speaker 1: for the you know, twenty five plus years, and not

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Speaker 1: that he hasn't taken like of course, like everybody like

545
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Speaker 1: shots at what the hell the Knicks are doing or

546
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Speaker 1: who they brought in. And I'm sure that's gotten to Dolan.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure he hates that hearing all that, but he

548
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Speaker 1: was so upset because he's like you're right, Tess. He's like,

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Speaker 1: what are we talking about here? This is are you?

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Speaker 3: This is insane.

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Speaker 6: He has been watching bad teams for a long time,

552
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Speaker 6: paying a lot of money, and it's up to him

553
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Speaker 6: to I'm not I'm not trying to I don't know.

554
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Speaker 6: I don't even know what to say. I'm not trying

555
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Speaker 6: to jump. He can pay for his money, he can

556
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Speaker 6: pay for his seats or not pay for his seats.

557
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Speaker 6: But you treat him like, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 7: This is maybe the easiest situation to not batch. The

559
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Speaker 7: guy has been sitting in the same place for three decades.

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Speaker 7: It doesn't He could parachute into the arena and be like,

561
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Speaker 7: all right, bike, we got your seat right here.

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Speaker 4: Who cares?

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Speaker 6: Yeah? What entrance?

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Because so the video leaks on the Monday night.

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Speaker 1: You hear Spike yelling with security like what the hell's

566
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Speaker 1: going on? Everybody at the time thought, oh my god,

567
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Speaker 1: Spike Ley actually got ejected, like oh like Oakley. But

568
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Speaker 1: then you see him in his seats and I was

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Speaker 1: like okay, and it was like then Spike goes on

570
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Speaker 1: and tells his story. But the nick should have just

571
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Speaker 1: been like, he just can't let it lie, right. Dolan

572
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Speaker 1: has to have the last word. He has to try

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Speaker 1: to so he can't just say misunderstanding are bad. Spike

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Speaker 1: is a legend, you know, he's been coming for thirty

575
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Speaker 1: plus years. He just can't he can't swallow his goddamn

576
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Speaker 1: pride and just say that even if he was wrong,

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Speaker 1: like so to speak, like, Okay, yeah, we told Spike

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Speaker 1: to come in this entrance whatever, Like if you really

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Speaker 1: want to, like they, okay, follow the rules. Man, you're

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Speaker 1: just because you're celebrity, shoul follow the rules. But like,

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Speaker 1: just even if that's true, why blast that to everyone

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Speaker 1: like this dumbass press release.

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Speaker 6: It's crazy.

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Speaker 3: There's no explanation for it. I mean, it's the Knicks

585
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Speaker 3: have been taking so many hits in these last two seasons.

586
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Speaker 3: You would think someone to say, listen, just do the

587
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Speaker 3: right thing. He should just say nothing, do the right thing.

588
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Speaker 3: But yeah, and I had just.

589
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Speaker 1: Gotten done, like mere hours prior here on the podcast

590
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Speaker 1: saying giving credit to Leon Rose for actually sort of

591
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Speaker 1: doing nothing right, like for not having a crazy press

592
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Speaker 1: conference saying oh, I am now the president and we're

593
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Speaker 1: gonna make the playoffs next year and we're gonna be

594
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Speaker 1: bringing all these names. He actually did the flip side

595
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Speaker 1: of that, which was like, just say nothing, just show

596
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Speaker 1: up to the game. Wow, you got a nice win.

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Speaker 6: R J.

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Speaker 1: Barrett game winner perfectly played in my opinion, and then

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Speaker 1: you know, an hour or two later this happens.

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Speaker 6: This even evoked a bit of an opinion tweet from

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Speaker 6: Adrian Wolch and rescue. Yeah usually a newsman, Yes, usually

602
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Speaker 6: a newsman. He said, welcome to the NIXT Leon Rose,

603
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Speaker 6: simple as that it's unfortunate. But Leon Rose has this

604
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Speaker 6: on his plate now. And I agree he shouldn't be,

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Speaker 6: you know, doing press conferences, et cetera. But in this instance,

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Speaker 6: I think he's he should try and put on a

607
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Speaker 6: good face, say and say something but it's unfortunate.

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Speaker 1: But you But but anyone there in the next organization

609
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Speaker 1: doing that risks, you know, getting blowback from Dolan, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean that's the thing. He could come out, Leon

611
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Speaker 1: Roscauld say, you know, apologies Spike Lee. Misunderstanding will moveing

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Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. And you don't

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Speaker 1: know what that will do to Dolan, Like, fine, just

614
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Speaker 1: a while.

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Speaker 7: Honestly, if you come out and you say we love

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Speaker 7: Spike Lee, he he is an ambassador for our team.

617
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Speaker 7: We messed up, so sorry, and then James Dolan fires

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Speaker 7: you the next day.

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Speaker 4: You're better off. You're right right, Like who cares?

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Speaker 1: You're probably right?

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Speaker 6: And yeah, it's just like LI said, like Ozzie Davis

622
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Speaker 6: do the right thing.

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Speaker 3: Well done.

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Speaker 6: I had to look up that movie. Make sure that

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Speaker 6: Davis all right?

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Speaker 1: Next one here, next headlines, keep it going. This one

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Speaker 1: from Clutch points. I used to be a favorite headline

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Speaker 1: of ours back in the day. He clutch points to

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Speaker 1: view the headline. Darryl Moury rips NBA broadcasters who are

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Speaker 1: hate watching games? Is this news? This is pulled from

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Speaker 1: Darryl Mory's appearance on FS one's First Things First. The

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Speaker 1: other show was first In the title A couple of Things,

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Speaker 1: Morey said, you know this idea, and I'll read it

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Speaker 1: to you here right now. Mary said, if you tune

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Speaker 1: into a lot of NBA telecasts, the announcers are hate

636
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,359
Speaker 1: watching their own game. It's crazy. You'll tune in and

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00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:17,719
Speaker 1: they'll be like, well, what's happening here? They're shooting too

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00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:20,680
Speaker 1: many three pointers back in my day, And then the

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Speaker 1: other thing that happens. You tune in and they go well,

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Speaker 1: why are we watching tonight? Nothing matters until the playoffs. Nothing.

641
00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:27,240
Speaker 1: People are like, okay, I'm going to go back to CSI.

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00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 1: You get a lot more to say Maury did wrong.

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Speaker 1: But is this news? Yeah? You agree with this?

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Speaker 6: It kind of needs to be said people color commentators specifically,

645
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Speaker 6: even in the studio. It's happening everywhere where. Guys just

646
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Speaker 6: aren't willing to adapt to the new game and they're

647
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Speaker 6: not really selling it. Yeah, And it's it's sort of

648
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 6: a fine line because you don't want to edit these

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Speaker 6: guys and censor what they're saying. These men and women

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Speaker 6: out there. You don't want to say, hey, you've got

651
00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:59,000
Speaker 6: to you gotta sell the game. Don't tell it like

652
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:03,040
Speaker 6: it is, tell don't give your opinion, just just just

653
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:05,520
Speaker 6: put on a happy face. So it's a fine line.

654
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:08,199
Speaker 6: That being said, they're not willing to adapt, they're not

655
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:10,480
Speaker 6: willing to just flow with the game and see where

656
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:13,320
Speaker 6: it goes. I'm worried of that turning into an old guy.

657
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:17,200
Speaker 6: That's why I'm wearing the sweater. I'm definitely yeah, yeah,

658
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:21,280
Speaker 6: just worried about being old and not being able to adapt,

659
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 6: like a lot of these guys on the broadcast or

660
00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,359
Speaker 6: in studio. It's happening his team gets picked on more

661
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:28,359
Speaker 6: so than every other team. I would say that's a

662
00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 6: part of it here, Yeah, James and them shooting threes,

663
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:35,880
Speaker 6: but it's something that's happening. The broadcasters don't sell the game.

664
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,040
Speaker 6: He went on to say, well, we're just gonna wait

665
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 6: for the playoffs. That's a line from a lot of

666
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 6: the broadcasters he's quoting, which is entirely true. They do

667
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 6: say that, and they don't you know, they don't jump

668
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:48,960
Speaker 6: in like we've talked about trying to find a little

669
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:51,479
Speaker 6: enjoyment in these regular season games. They don't do that.

670
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:54,160
Speaker 6: And so it's happening a lot, and it's a trickle

671
00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 6: down effect. A lot of the big name guys do it.

672
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:57,920
Speaker 6: A lot of the color commentators guys do it. And

673
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:01,120
Speaker 6: it's also just getting old. And that's the worrisome part.

674
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 3: It feels like Jeff fan Gundy's complaining about something every game.

675
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 3: It really does on the ESPN. And you know, he

676
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 3: and Mark Jackson have had a good run. But honestly,

677
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:11,160
Speaker 3: Mike Bran and Doris should be their number one option

678
00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:13,760
Speaker 3: at ESPN, No no doubt about it anymore. Because Jeff

679
00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:15,800
Speaker 3: was funny at the start, but now he just seems

680
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 3: to he's always hating on something or complaining or whining,

681
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:22,680
Speaker 3: or he's just got that negative attitude. Yeah, it has changed,

682
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,120
Speaker 3: and he's been a great commentator, no doubt about that.

683
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 3: But I think it's uh. I find whenever it's Breen

684
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:32,320
Speaker 3: and Doris, it's always much more an enjoyable watch for me.

685
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,080
Speaker 3: Doris is very intelligent, she's very smart, and she.

686
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Speaker 4: And the enthusiasm comes off.

687
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 6: Yeah. Oh yeah.

688
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 7: That's the other thing is that you're comparing like the

689
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:44,080
Speaker 7: number one basketball commentators in Van Gundy and.

690
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Speaker 4: Barkley is always a guy who's like, no chance.

691
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:48,080
Speaker 7: I'm watching this game, I'm watching bums. Yeah, like right,

692
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:49,720
Speaker 7: those are things that come out of his mouth for

693
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 7: a decade at a time. You compare him to Tony Romo,

694
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:55,000
Speaker 7: who instantly became the best football commentator and you can

695
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 7: tell that he loves watching football.

696
00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 3: Yeah.

697
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's such a difference. You need you need to

698
00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:02,040
Speaker 7: like the job you're rather than just going on and complaining.

699
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:04,720
Speaker 1: Yeah. And another quote that Morey said on this appearance

700
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:07,520
Speaker 1: on First Takes or First Takes First, I'm gonna match

701
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 1: the two shows together now, he said, people tune in

702
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,239
Speaker 1: and they'll be being told how they shouldn't watch and

703
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 1: how it's not a fun game to watch. It's bizarre

704
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:16,760
Speaker 1: to me. The NFL would never let it happen, and

705
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:19,360
Speaker 1: I don't understand it, and he does. It's not everybody.

706
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 1: It's not all broadcast, for sure, but there are like

707
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 1: you guys are pointing out many that it's like you're

708
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 1: literally sort of watching and they're being told like why

709
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 1: are you watching this? Or this isn't good or you

710
00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:31,520
Speaker 1: know this was better twenty years ago, or I could

711
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 1: do that. Yeah, And it is strange when it's a

712
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 1: great point when you think about you're like that is

713
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 1: that would never happen in the NFL.

714
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:39,720
Speaker 4: Certainly, there is no doubt about that.

715
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 1: I mean, you are trying to sell the products, so

716
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 1: why don't you try and sell the damn product a

717
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:45,040
Speaker 1: little bit better.

718
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:47,200
Speaker 6: I do think the NBA does a good job of

719
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:49,719
Speaker 6: again not censoring their kind.

720
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right, and that's the fine line.

721
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, so I think there should be some credit there.

722
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 6: But Jeff ay Gunny was a good, good, good broadcaster

723
00:30:57,320 --> 00:30:59,960
Speaker 6: for a long time, and now he's just a little grumpy.

724
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 6: The pants and maybe it's just because he's done it

725
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 6: for so long. I don't think it's because he hates

726
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 6: the game at all. I just think he's just a

727
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,960
Speaker 6: little bit, just a little bit hardened by doing it

728
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 6: for so long. Maybe he just needs a little refresher,

729
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 6: He needs a little listering. Uh what are those things called?

730
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:21,680
Speaker 6: Those things you put on your tongue cleanser. I met

731
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:25,280
Speaker 6: those like little uh yeah, yeah, those sort of things

732
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 6: that melt on your tongue, Like just a little refresher.

733
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:29,960
Speaker 1: The other part of this, he's been doing it so long,

734
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,480
Speaker 1: he said it. He's also he's become a character now, right,

735
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:34,840
Speaker 1: that is sort of his bit, and the rest of

736
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 1: the broadcasts, you know, steer him also towards that, and

737
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:40,600
Speaker 1: you you just take that on I think more and

738
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 1: it's it's just not enjoyable. And you're right, Tess, I

739
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 1: don't want all these projects like, oh, the MBA is

740
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 1: the greatest sport in the world, and like everything is

741
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:49,840
Speaker 1: whole hum and oh my god, it's the best. No,

742
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:51,480
Speaker 1: you got to be a little critical and you got

743
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 1: to be able to knock it down a peg or

744
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:55,480
Speaker 1: question things when you want. Be it the officiating, be

745
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 1: it teams whatever decisions, but you can still have that

746
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:01,640
Speaker 1: enthusiasm And I think was the word you use for Doris,

747
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:04,200
Speaker 1: like that you that it comes through just in your

748
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 1: You're only you're only critiquing it because you love it

749
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:08,280
Speaker 1: so much and you want to see it, want it

750
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 1: to be better, and you want more people to watch

751
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:10,480
Speaker 1: it and enjoy it.

752
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 4: That's why I think stan Van Gundy has been so good.

753
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 7: He's teaching you about basketball, and he obviously still cares

754
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:17,480
Speaker 7: about the way it's being played as well. But I

755
00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 7: mean it's like, how many times can we hear a

756
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 7: jump shooting team can't win in the playoffs? That's ridiculous

757
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:25,440
Speaker 7: to keep hearing the same take over and over when

758
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 7: we've seen jump shooting teams win in the playoffs. So

759
00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:29,960
Speaker 7: I don't know, I mean, there's just got to be

760
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 7: some sort of middle ground where you're like, yeah, I'm

761
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 7: still able to critique the game, but how hard would

762
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 7: it be to say, look, how amazing all these guys

763
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 7: are shooting. And back in my day we had two

764
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 7: guys on our team who we were allowed to shoot threes.

765
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Speaker 7: Now everybody is that's actually awesome. Yeah, that's a lot

766
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 7: more skill rather than saying, oh, I didn't shoot threes,

767
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:47,680
Speaker 7: so these guys shouldn't.

768
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Speaker 4: That's that's ridiculous.

769
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 6: Yeah, and Maury's larger point about fans tuning into a

770
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 6: game and then saying, oh, they don't want to watch me,

771
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 6: or they don't want me to watch the game, or

772
00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:01,040
Speaker 6: they're a little bit grumpy that the game was better

773
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:04,080
Speaker 6: in the past and they tune into CSI that larger

774
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 6: point cannot be disputed. Sure, it can be disputed why

775
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 6: fans are turning off the game, but at the same

776
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 6: time they're turning off the game, so ratings are down.

777
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:15,920
Speaker 6: And I think Morey's points have to be listened to,

778
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:18,440
Speaker 6: just like you know, Barkley's points are listened to, just

779
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 6: like Jeffyan Gundy's points are listened to. When they say

780
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 6: this coaches challenge isn't working. Their points are valid. They're

781
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,400
Speaker 6: quite often are valid. But like Trey said, the same

782
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 6: sort of stuff about jump shooting. Oh there's there's these

783
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:35,720
Speaker 6: guys just they do whatever they want. I could score

784
00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 6: fifty in this league maybe. But also, you know, you

785
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 6: don't have pardon my Greg Oster tag hate you don't

786
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 6: have Greg Oster tag out there like you've got seven

787
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:48,880
Speaker 6: footers who can put it on the floor and do

788
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 6: it like it is a very very skilled game. And yeah,

789
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 6: maybe the pendulum has to swing back a little bit

790
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:55,960
Speaker 6: more to a little bit of defense and a little

791
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 6: bit more handsy. But we're in a good place and

792
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:04,480
Speaker 6: NBA fans just just want to be fans, and so

793
00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 6: sometimes sometimes it's hard. Sometimes it is a little bit

794
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:10,759
Speaker 6: difficult for I agree with more. Sometimes it's just it's

795
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 6: just leaves a bad taste in your mouth watching some

796
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 6: of these broadcasts.

797
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:15,799
Speaker 1: Just put us on the broadcast, give no dunks their

798
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:18,440
Speaker 1: own uh, you know, will be the whole crew. You know,

799
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 1: we've done it before.

800
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:21,840
Speaker 3: We did one game was something that we don't have

801
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:22,280
Speaker 3: a record.

802
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:23,920
Speaker 4: Cruster though we don't have a record.

803
00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 6: It's like Tim Duncan and JD can produce the whole game.

804
00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:30,080
Speaker 6: He's got he's making all these cameras happen. He's this

805
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 6: is a studio here, con you can operate, operate every camera.

806
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:38,319
Speaker 3: And I have him as a color combatitor as well.

807
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:44,959
Speaker 5: I think sideline, you're gonna hear some negativity.

808
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:48,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, we just don't want our NBA broadcasters to be

809
00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:49,799
Speaker 1: like JD, who just.

810
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 6: Don't want to be watching that's fair.

811
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 1: Rather be watching a nice play, all right. One more

812
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 1: headline here is this one's from bleacher Report. Zion Williamson

813
00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:02,400
Speaker 1: cleared to play back to back games after knee injury recovery.

814
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:03,839
Speaker 1: Is this news.

815
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:07,160
Speaker 3: Pelicans are going for it. They're going for it. They've

816
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:08,839
Speaker 3: had a little bit of a blip in the raidar

817
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:10,360
Speaker 3: I lost three of the last four.

818
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 1: And bad last last name.

819
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:14,480
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, not a lot of defense in that.

820
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:17,839
Speaker 1: God, you got to try on that end. I hate

821
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:19,520
Speaker 1: to sound like a you know, a curmudgeon here, but

822
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:23,839
Speaker 1: there was a little defense played one four and you're playing,

823
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:25,560
Speaker 1: you know, for your playoff hopes here.

824
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 3: Yeah. Combined with the fact that Grizzlies have won a

825
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:29,319
Speaker 3: couple in a row, the Kings have won three, the

826
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:32,160
Speaker 3: Pelicans have just sort of slipped there four games back

827
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 3: now of the Grizzly So I think I think David

828
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 3: Griffin and the and the Pelicans have decided, let's go

829
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:39,560
Speaker 3: for it. Let's the number eighth is fine, Let's try

830
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:41,399
Speaker 3: to get it. And and that's the reason why they're

831
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:43,719
Speaker 3: not just trying to bring Zion along just to get

832
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:47,759
Speaker 3: some reps and you know, maybe be overcautious, like he's responding, well,

833
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:50,799
Speaker 3: he's playing, well, he's probably our best player already, let's

834
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:51,239
Speaker 3: go for it.

835
00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, he'll play Ton eight and it's back to back

836
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 1: in Dallas.

837
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:56,680
Speaker 6: Yeah, and that's our Pickham game a little bit later,

838
00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 6: so he tuned for that. You want to hear some pickums,

839
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:01,759
Speaker 6: We've got pickums. I guess you can just say that

840
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 6: simply put. The Pelicans front office handled it well, and

841
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:08,880
Speaker 6: they they sort of limited the expectations when he came

842
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:10,400
Speaker 6: back and they said he's not playing.

843
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:10,880
Speaker 3: It back to backs.

844
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:13,960
Speaker 6: Okay, fine, fine, we'll deal with that as fans. But

845
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:19,239
Speaker 6: it's perfect now, right. They've they haven't decreased their expectations,

846
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 6: they've elevated them by initially saying he's not going to

847
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 6: play them. And now he's healthy. That's great news. That's

848
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:27,279
Speaker 6: the best part about this is that he's entirely healthy

849
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:29,320
Speaker 6: and he can play an actual NBA season.

850
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:31,480
Speaker 7: Yeah, and it took basically a month of being on

851
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:34,719
Speaker 7: the court. So good stuff for the Pelicans, good stuff

852
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 7: for Zion. Had another incredible game last night, twenty five

853
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:39,320
Speaker 7: on ten and nineteen shooting. What's he going to do

854
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:40,080
Speaker 7: in the second night of a.

855
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 4: Back to back.

856
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:42,239
Speaker 7: We'll see We'll see how that leg holds up. We'll

857
00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:45,440
Speaker 7: see how that new stride is working. Apparently they're happy

858
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:46,640
Speaker 7: with the way he's walking.

859
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:47,640
Speaker 6: So nice.

860
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:49,799
Speaker 7: I don't know, you need as much zion as you

861
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:52,399
Speaker 7: can get considering your mess half the season, two thirds

862
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 7: of the season. If they're going to make a playoff push,

863
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:56,319
Speaker 7: they want him out there cool that he actually can be.

864
00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:58,400
Speaker 1: He is quoted after the game saying, this is one

865
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Speaker 1: of those games we needed and didn't get. So this

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00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,280
Speaker 1: is a tough loss. That's absolutely right. You're like, you've

867
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Speaker 1: got to get some w's here, and you got to

868
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Speaker 1: get ones against the Wolves, and you should have just

869
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 1: played a little defense because it was abysmal, just no

870
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:13,480
Speaker 1: one really trying out there. It was very, very very

871
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:16,360
Speaker 1: at times a little crazy to watch more than anything,

872
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:18,760
Speaker 1: because you're like, guys, you want to get in the playoffs.

873
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 1: You got to get some stops here. But they turned

874
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:21,799
Speaker 1: the ball over fifteen times, They missed a ton of

875
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 1: three as the Pelicans did, struggled at the free throw

876
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 1: line too, left a lot of points on the board there.

877
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:27,959
Speaker 1: But they're going to get like he's going to play

878
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:30,120
Speaker 1: if he goes like from here on out, they have

879
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:32,200
Speaker 1: like after tonights if you're going to count that one

880
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:33,799
Speaker 1: as a back to back set, which you should, I

881
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 1: think there's like three more right still on their schedule,

882
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:38,680
Speaker 1: and I know they have an easier schedule than a

883
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:40,400
Speaker 1: lot of these teams in this playoff race for the

884
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:43,120
Speaker 1: eight seed, but you know, back to back still, I

885
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:45,439
Speaker 1: don't care who you're playing really in this league and tasks.

886
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:47,880
Speaker 1: You've already talked about it. March can be weird as

887
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 1: it is with just victories or strange losses. It's just

888
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 1: a strange part of the calendar.

889
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 6: Guys, chill out. If you know you're a playoff team.

890
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:00,800
Speaker 6: You look at these scrubs who aren't making the playoffs.

891
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:02,759
Speaker 6: We're better than that team. Yeah, you kind of just

892
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:04,879
Speaker 6: chill out. And yeah, I think I think a big

893
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:07,719
Speaker 6: part of it is the teams that aren't making the playoffs.

894
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 6: They're just playing to the best of their capabilities. No pressure.

895
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, no pressure, that's true.

896
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,200
Speaker 6: And they're still pretty good basketball players. So you combine

897
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 6: those chilling versus this is fun. Basketball is fun with

898
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 6: no pressure whatsoever, and guys playing.

899
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Speaker 1: For their careers at some points. You know, some of

900
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:26,040
Speaker 1: these guys that have been like a ninth to tenth

901
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:29,120
Speaker 1: eleventh guy. They're getting burned. They're getting minutes on some

902
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:29,800
Speaker 1: of these squads.

903
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 4: And this is when the random Knicks honestly thrive.

904
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 7: It's like Chris Copeland got a huge deal off playing

905
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 7: well for a month and a half. Ron Baker, who

906
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 7: else has been a Knicks legend for a month and

907
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:38,919
Speaker 7: a half.

908
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:40,799
Speaker 4: Trey Burke had a good run down. They thought he

909
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:42,280
Speaker 4: was going to be the point guard of the future.

910
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 4: Hit us up with your favorite random one month Nicks. Oh,

911
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:47,640
Speaker 4: because they are a lot of them.

912
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Speaker 6: I know there's a lot. I loved Chris Copeland and

913
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 6: then I watch him the next year. He moved like

914
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 6: molashes out there when guys were actually trying on defense. Yeah,

915
00:38:57,520 --> 00:38:58,040
Speaker 6: it was nice.

916
00:38:58,040 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 4: Though. He's going to the Pacers. You're like, this is

917
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:01,400
Speaker 4: exactly what they need. A stretch shooter.

918
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:04,959
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean Treer has sort of been that, although

919
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 6: hopefully he works out.

920
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Speaker 3: Yeah.

921
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:09,000
Speaker 1: So you've got the Grizzlies at thirty and thirty one

922
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Speaker 1: holding onto the eight seed. They're three up right now

923
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Speaker 1: of the Kings, as you mentioned there, who have put

924
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Speaker 1: three wins together, and I'm playing really well. I mean,

925
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:19,400
Speaker 1: they're playing weird games. That was last night a perfect example.

926
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Speaker 1: They were up felt like a hundred points at the half,

927
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Speaker 1: and they gave it all away in one quarter to

928
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:26,799
Speaker 1: the Wizards and then got to go in again and

929
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Speaker 1: Fox had a good game. Blazers are getting Damian Lillard

930
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:31,120
Speaker 1: beack is that's still reported to go tonight as he

931
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 1: comes back probable. He's probable tonight, so that's huge. They're

932
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Speaker 1: a little bit behind the Kings. Spurs got that victory

933
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Speaker 1: with Duncan there, and then yeah, Pelicans dropped the drop

934
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Speaker 1: two in a row and the Sons have dropped four

935
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Speaker 1: in a row and they're you know, very yeah. I mean,

936
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Speaker 1: I think those Suns we can write off. They're not

937
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Speaker 1: making the playoffs, and obviously the Wolves and the Warriors

938
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Speaker 1: behind them are not as well. It's gonna be a

939
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:51,800
Speaker 1: fun little race, all right. Those are the headlines in

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Speaker 1: is this news? Lee time for tweeting the night.

941
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Speaker 4: Tweed out the knive, Wow twit.

942
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Speaker 3: So before I get to the tweet, I thought I'd

943
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Speaker 3: like to just reiterate to our listeners that you can

944
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 3: now watch every episode of our show on YouTube, which

945
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:12,520
Speaker 3: is great because JD does an incredible job putting that

946
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:15,719
Speaker 3: together and making it a fun watch. And again you

947
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:17,399
Speaker 3: just want to check out the opening to the Beach

948
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:21,640
Speaker 3: Stepping podcast yesterday. Just incredible stuff, really really good. Now

949
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:24,480
Speaker 3: onto the tweet. So on yesterday's Beach Stepping, I actually

950
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:28,240
Speaker 3: talked about how Goren Ivanizovich won the greatest men's final

951
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Speaker 3: of all time. Boy in two thousand and one. There's

952
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Speaker 3: an NBA t when you beat Pat Rafter in the

953
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Speaker 3: five sets on a Monday, great match and.

954
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Speaker 6: The greatest sorry, the greatest slam men.

955
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Speaker 3: Men's Wimbledon final. Yeah, I mean probably the greatest Slam final.

956
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Speaker 6: I mean it was just because it was a great match.

957
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:46,399
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, five sets went deep.

958
00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:47,200
Speaker 6: Wow.

959
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:50,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Gore, you know, unseated like wild card

960
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:52,840
Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty fifth in the world. He's a

961
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Speaker 3: three time finalist, like runner up at Wimbledon, Pat Rafter,

962
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Speaker 3: he lost the final the year before to Pitt Sampras.

963
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Speaker 6: I mean, I've just thought that, like some bit no

964
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:05,799
Speaker 6: disrespect to Goran Ivanisovich, love the lefty, Yeah, but I

965
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Speaker 6: just I just thought there would be you know, a

966
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Speaker 6: big name versus big name, because.

967
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Speaker 3: Nadar went pretty deep in O eight. I think that

968
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 3: went like three and a half four or five hour matches.

969
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:19,160
Speaker 3: They were two players at the top of their game

970
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:21,200
Speaker 3: at the time. I mean, I'm talking about nobody wants that.

971
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:24,840
Speaker 3: The story, the narrative of Goran Ivanizovich.

972
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:25,400
Speaker 6: You know, all right?

973
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:28,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, so the match was great and and a listener,

974
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:31,840
Speaker 3: Nick Zakati, also reminded me of just how awesome Goran's

975
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:35,279
Speaker 3: postmatch speech was, and he tweeted to me, I'm not

976
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:37,239
Speaker 3: going to play the whole thing, but here are some

977
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 3: of the best bits, including an NBA tye in at

978
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Speaker 3: the end.

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Speaker 8: I don't know if it's a dream or not. If

980
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:44,279
Speaker 8: I'm gonna wake up and then something's gonna tell me

981
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 8: you did the wimblin again. But I don't know what

982
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:51,440
Speaker 8: to say. I was three times in the final, but

983
00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:53,880
Speaker 8: this is this is just unbelievad.

984
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:54,480
Speaker 4: This is too good.

985
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 8: Thank you guys for everything. And I would like to

986
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:01,839
Speaker 8: thank a couple of people, also my father. I know,

987
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:03,400
Speaker 8: I mean, if I lose to that, I think your

988
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:08,720
Speaker 8: heart will definitely explode, but so I had to be careful.

989
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:15,560
Speaker 4: Thanks Dad, to my.

990
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 8: Family back home, to my coach Mario and all my supporters.

991
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:28,320
Speaker 8: And one more thing. Nineteen ninety three, I would like

992
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 8: to dedicate this victory to friend of mine. Nineteen ninety three,

993
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:33,879
Speaker 8: he died in a car accident. He was the best

994
00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:37,360
Speaker 8: European basketball player him played in NBA. His name was

995
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:41,839
Speaker 8: Drasien Petrovitch. And this funny for your man, if you'll

996
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:44,839
Speaker 8: see me d resting pace and thank you very much.

997
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:46,920
Speaker 3: He wandered after being a runner up three times. But

998
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 3: also he shouts at Drazen Petrovitch at the end. He

999
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 3: was a good friend of Drasen and Drazen had passed away

1000
00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:54,320
Speaker 3: in nineteen ninety three, eight years prior in a murder

1001
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:57,160
Speaker 3: vehicle accident. But it was just a very an emotional

1002
00:42:57,200 --> 00:42:59,360
Speaker 3: time for go around whose career was basically over. He

1003
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:01,480
Speaker 3: came back and one and again the fact that we're

1004
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:04,600
Speaker 3: now on YouTube, these tweets don't have to be solely audio.

1005
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:06,360
Speaker 3: They can be visual. So you can go out and

1006
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 3: check out this tweet and you can see where you

1007
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:13,320
Speaker 3: can see Goura and there talking with the BBC's Barker.

1008
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:16,400
Speaker 3: So great job, and you know it's NBA related. And

1009
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:19,600
Speaker 3: again someone tweeted it to me last night, so it counts.

1010
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:22,880
Speaker 1: You said, like he was the wildcard. I didn't realize

1011
00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:25,799
Speaker 1: he didn't win the wildcat's bite. You're literally just giving it.

1012
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:27,960
Speaker 3: They have some discretionary wildcats.

1013
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:30,920
Speaker 6: Wow, okay, they're not ranked and they just three yeah,

1014
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:31,399
Speaker 6: yeah yeah.

1015
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 3: And someone who who has a record in a three

1016
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:35,680
Speaker 3: time finals, they're like, okay, we know he can play

1017
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:38,400
Speaker 3: on grass. And if you're injured or you're just you know,

1018
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:41,759
Speaker 3: whatever your circumstances were, They're like, let's give this guy

1019
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:45,719
Speaker 3: a wildcard. So every every tournament does that, and Wimbledon

1020
00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:48,880
Speaker 3: I think they still do it. They don't base the

1021
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:51,640
Speaker 3: seedings on the rankings. They base it on your record

1022
00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:55,000
Speaker 3: and history at Wimbledon. So you could be ranked number

1023
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:56,600
Speaker 3: ten in the world, but if you have a great

1024
00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:58,960
Speaker 3: Wimbledon record, you could be seated number three or four.

1025
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:03,080
Speaker 3: And often what they do for these wild cards is

1026
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:05,920
Speaker 3: they like to give a local perhaps a chance to

1027
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:08,000
Speaker 3: play in the Wimbledon, like those Straight Open does, the

1028
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:10,680
Speaker 3: US Open does it, the French does it. So it's great.

1029
00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:13,800
Speaker 1: Are you more of a grass, clay or hard court?

1030
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:16,280
Speaker 3: Well, I am a traditionalist. I do like the grass,

1031
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:19,440
Speaker 3: but of course Wimbledon is the only major tournament they have.

1032
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:21,560
Speaker 3: The Australian Open used to be on grass in Couyong,

1033
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:23,520
Speaker 3: but they changed in nineteen eighty nine to the hard

1034
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 3: courts a little easier to maintain. But grass, grass is

1035
00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 3: a lot more fun to play on, for sure.

1036
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:30,600
Speaker 1: I was going to say, are you best on the grass?

1037
00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:34,080
Speaker 3: You know, probably not, probably better on the hard courts,

1038
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:36,680
Speaker 3: But I'm just saying it's more pure to play on grass,

1039
00:44:36,680 --> 00:44:37,200
Speaker 3: more fun.

1040
00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:42,040
Speaker 6: It's like baseball, You said the Gornia Vinisvitch the only

1041
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:44,800
Speaker 6: wild code winner in men's game. You rate Kim Cloisters

1042
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:45,880
Speaker 6: did it apparently.

1043
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:48,080
Speaker 3: At the US Open that would have been I think

1044
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:51,399
Speaker 3: she's coming out of retirement again. She retired first because

1045
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 3: she had a baby, came back, won the US Open,

1046
00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 3: retired again. I think she's back. She might just be

1047
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:57,080
Speaker 3: playing doubles though.

1048
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Speaker 6: US hoping You're right. Yeah, and I I opened this

1049
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 6: article and there were three names apparently that it won

1050
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 6: the wild card and a Grand Slam. But the name

1051
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:10,759
Speaker 6: was Lynn Dan and I had never heard of that name.

1052
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:15,560
Speaker 6: It was a Chinese badminton superstar. He won a wildcard

1053
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:17,880
Speaker 6: as a wildcard a major badminton.

1054
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:18,400
Speaker 1: Oh.

1055
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:22,200
Speaker 3: I was like, wow, badminton probably got a tennis tournament.

1056
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:26,840
Speaker 6: Yeah, they just lumped badminton and tennis together.

1057
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:33,200
Speaker 1: Crazy pick the results from last night Clipper Thunder game.

1058
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:37,160
Speaker 1: Lac was favored by three and a half on the road.

1059
00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:40,120
Speaker 1: Lee and myself we liked the Clips to stay hot

1060
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:41,759
Speaker 1: with that full squad, and they got it done. That

1061
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:45,120
Speaker 1: was pretty dominant win for the Clips over the Thunder.

1062
00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:47,400
Speaker 1: So that's a win for Lee and I Task and

1063
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:50,600
Speaker 1: Tray take the El's still super early task. Oh and

1064
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:52,560
Speaker 1: two here in the month, everybody else won and one

1065
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:53,400
Speaker 1: tonight's game.

1066
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Speaker 6: It's on ESPN. Luka Doncic versus Zion Williamson. Hello Ryle one.

1067
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:01,480
Speaker 3: Do you think was this a FLEIXA?

1068
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 6: I don't think so.

1069
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:03,120
Speaker 1: I don't know.

1070
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:06,279
Speaker 6: I don't think so. Uh the Yeah. The Pels are

1071
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 6: now four games back of the eighth seed, so backs

1072
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:10,719
Speaker 6: against the wall, and there's three teams in between them

1073
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:13,040
Speaker 6: and the eighth seed. But the MAVs are three to

1074
00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:16,280
Speaker 6: zero against the Pels this season, but they haven't faced Zion.

1075
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:18,880
Speaker 6: Six and a half is a decent amount of points

1076
00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:21,840
Speaker 6: that the happen to win by. So what you got

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Speaker 6: in Dallas?

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Speaker 3: Guessing Pozingis will be playing don Chic play seth Curry's

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Speaker 3: playing on a tap but he missed Monday night. I'm

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Speaker 3: hoping he's back. I think the MAVs have got well,

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Speaker 3: what is it six and a half? Mm hmmm, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I think the MAVs have got seven points.

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Speaker 7: I'll take him third game in four nights as well

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Speaker 7: for the New Orleans Pelicans, so it's.

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Speaker 4: Not just the back to back for Zion.

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Speaker 7: Also the three and four MAVs coming off a loss

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Speaker 7: to the Balls.

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Speaker 4: How embarrassing, Dallas.

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Speaker 1: You're going, Dallas. I guess I'm gonna go Pelicans. I

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Speaker 1: think Gentry probably lit up those guys after that loss

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Speaker 1: last night and they watched some tape maybe or something

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Speaker 1: and said, hey, nobody's playing defense. This is embarrassing, and

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Speaker 1: they put in a little stronger effort. I think tonight

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Speaker 1: on that end, I like them ass. They're a great team,

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Speaker 1: but I think they can keep it close enough. I

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Speaker 1: think we might get a close one in this one.

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Speaker 1: So give me the Pelicans a.

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Speaker 6: Cover, give me a free throw to seal the seven

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Speaker 6: points spread at the end, I'll take.

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Speaker 1: Dubtas whoa, Hey, I'm the only one take in New

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Speaker 1: Orleans to cover the six and a half. Good luck

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Speaker 1: to everybody, all right, It's another back to back Jacks

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Speaker 1: type of day here in the Nodunk's office. Yes, that's right.

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Speaker 1: We got a new say What's Right coming out later today,

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Speaker 1: So make sure you subscribe to the podcast wherever you do.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, check us out on YouTube. As Lee said,

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Speaker 1: so you can see that beautiful tweet of the night. Also,

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Speaker 1: I tweeted it, or I shouldn't say I tweeted it.

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Speaker 1: I put it in the comments on YouTube. I want

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Speaker 1: people out there to keep a running sort of record

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Speaker 1: of every time Lee does a very dramatic yawn on

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Speaker 1: the show. Did you see yesterday's It's Crazy? Go to

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Speaker 1: like the one hour and eleven minute mark of yesterday's

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Speaker 1: I believe it was the Beach Stepping podcast. Maybe it

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Speaker 1: was a must have been Lee does arazy on and

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Speaker 1: you're up to like a good three or four now

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Speaker 1: already in the YouTube era. So somebody just keep tracks

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Speaker 1: so we can cut the ball together later in the year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I forget. We're on camera, you know, so insane,

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Speaker 3: You're like, wha what did you say you want to

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Speaker 3: live in?

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Speaker 1: I think it's something like that.

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Speaker 7: All right, Careful, if you watch somebody on, you're gonna

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Speaker 7: yawn again. Might be adding to the tally Clipper Bros.

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Speaker 6: Thanks for joining us. And remember shows. These shows are long.

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Speaker 6: I mean it was so much content out there.

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Speaker 1: Embrace the day people.

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Speaker 6: Every day, happy every man. It's been so long.

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Speaker 4: You're the fun of playing for.

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Speaker 6: It's happened already. It's gonna be good me