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Speaker 4: That's right, it is the Final Hour with I Couple

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Speaker 4: on the Magic City Mondays.

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Speaker 5: You just heard Kelvin Washington.

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Speaker 4: Martin Weiss is in the building right now for Rob

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Speaker 4: who is on vacation. Hopefully you're having a good one

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Speaker 4: and enjoying us. Monday, which a good first first summer

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Speaker 4: first weekend of summer was officially on Friday, so hopefully

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Speaker 4: getting out there and enjoying it. Not too bad around

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Speaker 4: here in southern California. On the way, Antonio Daniels, ad

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Speaker 4: hardest working man in show business, going to join us

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Speaker 4: here at the bottom of the hour. We'll talk to

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Speaker 4: NBA Finals with him, also some trades as well in

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Speaker 4: the NBA. Looking forward to hear what he has to say.

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Speaker 4: And then last call always loved hearing from you as well.

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Speaker 4: Get ready for that eight seven, seven ninety nine on

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Speaker 4: Fox coming up. And just a little bit on the way, Martin,

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Speaker 4: you and I were having a conversation about injuries, man,

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Speaker 4: even just during the break, just talking about it. Man,

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Speaker 4: it's just a different day and age. Man, Rob G,

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Speaker 4: I don't know if your daughter is just she. I

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Speaker 4: know she does gymnastic. She playing sports, you know, like baseball, softball,

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Speaker 4: t ball, soccer. Okay, is it not weird how young

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Speaker 4: they're starting? Like we all played. I was just talking

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Speaker 4: to Martin and all we all played sports, but my

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Speaker 4: three is jersey the ball and again and not playing

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Speaker 4: playing sports at two and a half. Three, Like this

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Speaker 4: get more and more serious and from then on to

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Speaker 5: Am I tripping? I don't remember doing all that that young?

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Speaker 5: Am I tripping? Either one of you?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 6: I mean I remember my first like organized team, like

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Speaker 7: I remember going to basketball tryouts and tryouts was strong. H.

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Speaker 5: I was going into the what would have been first grade.

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Speaker 4: See, I don't remember that, and I'm older than both

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Speaker 4: of you, and I'm not saying it didn't exist for

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Speaker 4: I remember getting busy around fourth gradish, like because you played.

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Speaker 5: I think what it was for me. I played any

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Speaker 4: Around the neighborhood, going crazy from you know, a couple

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Speaker 4: So we were talking off the air, summer basketball just

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Speaker 5: That I didn't necessarily need it to be as organized.

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Speaker 4: But it didn't consist of that where I would have

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Speaker 4: playing in direct league. That's when he got serious, right,

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Speaker 4: the innermural too. That was my thing, like we were

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Speaker 7: I played rec league basketball, or what would call bitty

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Speaker 5: We weren't traveling to go play.

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Speaker 7: I went to a high level high school, and I

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Speaker 5: But it's like, is this a blippery trend? Right?

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Speaker 7: So maybe and I get it, like nobody want don't

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Speaker 5: I would be interested to think, and I think it would.

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Speaker 7: Be help a lot in just kind of the way

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Speaker 5: They the NBA should really consider, especially with Nil, the

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Speaker 7: Being able to put together some sort of academies of

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Speaker 7: inherently I'm not a parent, but you want your kids

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Speaker 5: You want your kids to make it so right.

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Speaker 7: Now your kids are at an age where it's probably

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Speaker 5: But eventually you'll see it.

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Speaker 7: And I've been around enough eighth graders to know you

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Speaker 5: And all of a sudden, he just keeps going and

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Speaker 7: So you're as a parent exposing your kid as many

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Speaker 7: But that's I think where the lack of regulation comes

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Speaker 7: like if I but if they had wanted me to

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Speaker 7: four AAU teams because I.

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Speaker 5: Gotta get seen, I gotta get I gotta get exposure.

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Speaker 7: So if there's this scenario where the NBA could have

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Speaker 7: there is not basketball to be played at a high

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Speaker 4: Do you know Tony Parker's story, if you know Dirk's story,

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Speaker 4: You're fourteen fifty, you're playing with pros. We saw this

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Speaker 4: if you watch the Olympic, I forgot the exact title

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Speaker 7: The one where Anthony Evers told Barack Obama, I'm like

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Speaker 7: that he did he told him that. That was like,

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Speaker 7: I was like, I don't know if I love this

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Speaker 5: I was torn.

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Speaker 4: Robs like, go, that is correct? Tight, Okay. My point

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Speaker 4: is you saw how they do it in France. They

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Speaker 4: your point, it's regimenting, right. We got doctors, we got this,

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Speaker 4: the depressure of social media. If I don't have a mixtape,

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Speaker 4: that's crazy. If I ain't playing this guy, I gotta

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Speaker 4: ow Mark Wie's the number one kid. I gotta go

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Speaker 4: seven years. You see this middle school kid, he mighty bait.

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Speaker 7: Same way if you go and watch Jeff Tigue's clips

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Speaker 5: This is about being king of the city.

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Speaker 7: It was not necessarily about being king of even the

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Speaker 7: Because when Jef Zieg was in high school, the idea

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Speaker 5: Like that, dude, We played like that, the Greg Monroe

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Speaker 7: Now you ain't the Grossburg dude, but like that that

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Speaker 4: Dude, Rogie, I know you got a question. Let me

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Speaker 4: just co sign this story. So I'm a little older

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Speaker 4: than you. We're playing. Now, I have the high school

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Speaker 4: that I'm talking about in high school, my senior year,

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Speaker 4: he would become high school Player of the Year. He

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Speaker 4: went to Michigan, So you you know him, Lavelle, you know,

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, sure, dude, he's a high school gatoray player

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Speaker 4: the year. Bruh, it's nice. Clearly, we go into a

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Speaker 4: Thanksgiving tournament. Guess who we're playing against. Well, I'll tell

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Speaker 4: you the moment. So we're going in the tournament. Now,

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Speaker 4: it's Thanksgiving, so most people it's up in East Lansing

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Speaker 4: only people twenty people maybe in a game, right, a

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Speaker 5: I know who this is.

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Speaker 4: So we go into the next day's game that's been

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Speaker 4: the basis of about fifteen people, twenty people, third people.

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Speaker 4: We go into the next game, Robbio, now you know,

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Speaker 4: you go get your bucket. We see cheerleaders, dancers, people,

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Speaker 4: there's about three hundred people. Robgi like, what is going on?

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Speaker 4: And this other team is warming up and we go

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Speaker 4: Coaches like all right, We're like, why is this game different?

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Speaker 4: Is that's the ERA i was in with a guy

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Speaker 7: Shaganaw he's talked about it, before So i'm not telling

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Speaker 7: know he played with, Them but how many different teams

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Speaker 7: There and again he's talked about, this So i'm not

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Speaker 5: Game draymond wasn't going to all those.

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Speaker 7: Things and in high school he was not the player

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Speaker 7: Today but the the thing that gets me about this

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Speaker 7: well this is the perfect like final. Chapter you go

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Speaker 7: FINALS i don't care what anybody, Says, yea here best

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Speaker 7: best player in. Though So i've been the best player

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Speaker 7: grace on either side of, it no matter where you,

437
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Speaker 7: are because there was a lot of stuff going.

438
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Speaker 5: On it was that had a lot to not do with.

439
00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:24,840
Speaker 5: Basketball but you walk into.

440
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Speaker 7: This Situation Kevin durant locked in with a culture already

441
00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:31,520
Speaker 7: established with Em, udoka and all he's got to do

442
00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:36,040
Speaker 7: is be just like spread the spread the floor and hit,

443
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Speaker 7: threes hit open jump. Shots he's not gonna have to

444
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Speaker 7: be a, leader and he. Doesn't to, me the most

445
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Speaker 7: important thing does not stunt the growth of The thompson.

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Speaker 5: Kid it is set up.

447
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Speaker 4: Perfectly we're all rarely in life is the expectation for

448
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Speaker 4: you to do exactly what you do, Right and that's

449
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Speaker 4: all he's. Asked he doesn't have to try to build it.

450
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Speaker 4: Up we don't need you to be out, here try

451
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Speaker 4: to be. Young we don't need you to run the.

452
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Speaker 4: Floor we don't need to do point. Guard we don't need.

453
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Speaker 4: Anything we have Have Emai, adoka who has set the

454
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Speaker 4: culture hard, Nosed we're gonna play. Tough we're gonna you're

455
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Speaker 4: gonna have to beat. Us we're gonna try to bully

456
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Speaker 4: you at. Times they got a bunch of. Defenders they

457
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Speaker 4: got a lot of athletic guys And easton we uh

458
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Speaker 4: AND i obviously you Got i'm And, thompson which just

459
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Speaker 4: looks like he.

460
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Speaker 5: Might be the most athletic gout in the.

461
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Speaker 4: League you got his post player who just you can

462
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Speaker 4: go jump it down to when the jump shots aren't

463
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Speaker 4: going FROM Kd and it's Just taylor. Made and that's

464
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Speaker 4: WHY i have been screaming It martin for to drive

465
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Speaker 4: for a handful of. Weeks just, like, man it just

466
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Speaker 4: seems perfect to me because you got a veteran president proving,

467
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Speaker 4: guy and again he just gets to coming because that's

468
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Speaker 4: he's like that kid who just will you ever seen

469
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Speaker 4: that kid your neighbor who just kind of walks around any.

470
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Speaker 4: Man he plays with you, guys he hangs. Out but

471
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Speaker 4: he always seemed to be kind of a, kid you,

472
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Speaker 4: know goes by the beat of his own. Drum sure

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Speaker 4: he had his headphones on a little depending on your air,

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Speaker 4: walkman discman or whatever iPod dis.

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Speaker 7: Depended, ON i have to say for this air and,

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Speaker 7: yeah their headphones out now probably.

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Speaker 4: Right and he just walks around and just kind of

478
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Speaker 4: every down and again he messed with. You wrap up,

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Speaker 4: everybody what's?

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Speaker 5: Up? Man hang with? You but he kind of just

481
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Speaker 5: was in his own world and you were cool with.

482
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Speaker 5: Him THAT'S.

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Speaker 4: Kd he just likes to just kind of come, in

484
00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:05,680
Speaker 4: but there's always something a little. Off while he didn't

485
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Speaker 4: want to stay with you guys anymore with something, MAN

486
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Speaker 4: i ain't like the way you said that. Here, man

487
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Speaker 4: he was being rude or y'all was a little too aggressive.

488
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Speaker 4: Here and that's why he just floats from team to,

489
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Speaker 4: team even though he's so great and that to, me

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Speaker 4: he seems like this can be his is ang like

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Speaker 4: that what was that?

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Speaker 5: Show Kung?

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Speaker 2: Fu?

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Speaker 4: Right you just got to go from city to. City you're,

495
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Speaker 4: good you beat up, people but then you just kind

496
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Speaker 4: of keep going on your. Mission That's Kevin. Durant so

497
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Speaker 4: he can be the Kung fu master there In houston

498
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Speaker 4: and hopefully get them a. Championship is you know what

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Speaker 4: they're banking on Since Houston rock is With Hakeem. Olajuwan

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Speaker 4: but to, me it's been a tailor made perfect. Fit

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Speaker 4: here's this. Piece come be all that you, are so

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Speaker 4: all we. Had we don't need anything. Else just come

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Speaker 4: BEAT kd mid range free, throws three, pointers get us

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Speaker 4: a bucket and it'll work. Perfectly And James, harden can

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Speaker 4: you send him some recommendations? Too go check out this

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Speaker 4: BY youo my rafters up. There just throw my name

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Speaker 4: at the. Door you'll get. In we Got Antonio daniels

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Speaker 4: eighty on the other side right, Now Steven, sager my,

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Speaker 4: guy what's?

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Speaker 5: Live all, Right, steve you have an excellent, night my.

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Speaker 4: Friend appreciate you as always since THE i COUPLE Covid,

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Speaker 8: Calvin what's?

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Speaker 6: Up?

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Speaker 8: Brother what's Up? Martin how you guys doing?

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Speaker 5: Good With?

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Speaker 8: Gray? You i'm blessed, man truly.

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Speaker 5: Blessed, well you know.

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Speaker 4: What first, Off steve by the, Way Steve saeger was

529
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Speaker 4: just telling us a sixteen something million so everybody tuning

530
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Speaker 4: in to see a game seven h in THE Nba,

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Speaker 4: finals first we had since that twenty. Sixteen BUT i

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Speaker 4: just want to talk a couple of things from that.

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00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,639
Speaker 4: ONE i want to start with Just Tyrese, haliburton the.

534
00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:53,159
Speaker 4: Injury we never want to see. It you AND i

535
00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:55,879
Speaker 4: had the conversation With rob last, week and you were

536
00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:58,879
Speaker 4: on my side of man going into game, six you gotta,

537
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Speaker 4: play you gotta go for.

538
00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:00,600
Speaker 5: It he.

539
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Speaker 4: Does they play, well they, win big game for, them

540
00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:06,359
Speaker 4: least in game. Seven but this is just part of, sports,

541
00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:08,920
Speaker 4: Right this IS i Remember Isaiah thomas tearing his ankle

542
00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,639
Speaker 4: up And game six and eighty eight. Finals had he,

543
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Speaker 4: not maybe they win in beat The lakers in eighty.

544
00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:15,760
Speaker 4: Eight we already know what happened With Kevin love And

545
00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:18,719
Speaker 4: kyrie And Kevin durant in twenty was that twenty eighteen

546
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Speaker 4: nineteen twenty, Nineteen Kevin durant goes down to the. Worst

547
00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:25,000
Speaker 4: these things, happened but he played it right by playing

548
00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:26,440
Speaker 4: in game six in game, seven, Right.

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Speaker 8: YEAH i mean the thing, is hindsight's always twenty. Twenty you,

550
00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:33,280
Speaker 8: know after the, fact everybody can, say, well you know

551
00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:35,560
Speaker 8: what he shouldn't have or whatever it may. Be AND

552
00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:38,879
Speaker 8: i think about it like. This you, know can you

553
00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:41,200
Speaker 8: think about what people would have said About Teres haliburton

554
00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:43,399
Speaker 8: had he chose not to sit out and chose not

555
00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:44,359
Speaker 8: to play in game six and.

556
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Speaker 5: Seven, oh sure he's.

557
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Speaker 4: Weak kobe would have played man, up be, Tough, yes.

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Speaker 8: Exactly so a lot of, times AND i think this

559
00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:55,520
Speaker 8: is a this is we talked about this on our.

560
00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:59,399
Speaker 8: Sins as some show today it's a problem with social. Media,

561
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Speaker 8: No i'm not the fans When i'm just saying in,

562
00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:04,960
Speaker 8: GENERAL i think a lot of times guys won't do

563
00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:07,920
Speaker 8: what's best for themselves because they're worried about what they're

564
00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:10,879
Speaker 8: going to hear about themselves that they do. Right so

565
00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:14,200
Speaker 8: to Rese, oliburton when he got injured in game, five

566
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:17,919
Speaker 8: went To Rick carlisle and, said you know, what, listen

567
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Speaker 8: just go. OUT i trust these. Guys let's go ahead

568
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:23,200
Speaker 8: and let been finish with these. GUYS i don't want

569
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Speaker 8: to risk my long term health and possibly rupturem my

570
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Speaker 8: achilles and missing all of next. Year, right even though

571
00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:32,160
Speaker 8: it may have been the right. Decision can you imagine

572
00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:33,680
Speaker 8: the narrative that would have surrounded Terrese.

573
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Speaker 4: Aliburton can you Imagine carlisle to shut them?

574
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Speaker 7: Down If carlisle would have to come out and SAY

575
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Speaker 7: i want to, Play haliver would have SAID i want to,

576
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Speaker 7: play and it would have to have been an.

577
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Speaker 5: Organization that's the only way it.

578
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Speaker 8: Plays but here's the thing that the players always have

579
00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:51,280
Speaker 8: the final. Say that's why it's called the player empowerment.

580
00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:55,359
Speaker 8: Movement it's not called the organizational empowerment, movement or the

581
00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:59,520
Speaker 8: coach empowerment, movement or the training staff empowerment. Movement it's

582
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:02,920
Speaker 8: called the player empowerment movement because the, player especially the star,

583
00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,800
Speaker 8: player there's not a person in the organization that has

584
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:10,240
Speaker 8: more power than a star. Player who's the most powerful

585
00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 8: entity with The Golden State, warriors no question about. It

586
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:18,240
Speaker 8: so he can Get steve kirkfhard if you want. To

587
00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:20,840
Speaker 8: he can Get Draymond green traded if you want, to

588
00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:23,080
Speaker 8: but you're telling me he doesn't have the final right

589
00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:25,359
Speaker 8: of refusal or whether or not he wants to play or.

590
00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:29,720
Speaker 7: Not So, ANTONIO i got to ask, You, Antonio daniel's joining,

591
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Speaker 7: Us AND i know you just asked me a, question

592
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:35,640
Speaker 7: BUT i Do we did have the game. Seven they've

593
00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:37,680
Speaker 7: played Three world quarters IN o, case he won the.

594
00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:40,720
Speaker 7: CHAMPIONSHIP i know that gets lost in the wash here

595
00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:44,080
Speaker 7: unfortunately for. Them but you said something in your answer

596
00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:46,920
Speaker 7: just now that that triggered me The Oregon you, said

597
00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:51,679
Speaker 7: just the player empowerment movement right? Now do you still

598
00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:54,399
Speaker 7: think that's true in terms of way THE cba and

599
00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:57,119
Speaker 7: all this is. Going WHERE i say that because you

600
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Speaker 7: look at The Oklahoma City, thunder you look at the

601
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:03,520
Speaker 7: way they are being championed right. Now are should say

602
00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:06,600
Speaker 7: they are being celebrated right now because they lifted the.

603
00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:09,800
Speaker 7: Championship but it's the idea of they built this thing

604
00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:12,359
Speaker 7: up from the ground, up using their picks and a

605
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:15,719
Speaker 7: little lottery luck with chet and DRAFTING j dub and

606
00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:18,679
Speaker 7: find you, know and i'd building this roster route and

607
00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:20,840
Speaker 7: in the same breadth as we talk about how good

608
00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 7: this team is or how great this team, is depending

609
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:24,600
Speaker 7: on how you look at. Them it's also this team

610
00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 7: super set up for the future as. Well do you

611
00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:29,720
Speaker 7: are we moving into a different vision of things in

612
00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:31,080
Speaker 7: the times of player?

613
00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:34,720
Speaker 8: Empowerment, no BECAUSE i mean the thing, is as long

614
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:37,760
Speaker 8: as players are getting paid what they're getting, paid they

615
00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:41,240
Speaker 8: give Us alexander's about to be Super mets. Out you

616
00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:44,960
Speaker 8: know that's not going to. Change LIKE i get exactly

617
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,440
Speaker 8: what you're, Saying. Martin you, know the thing that will

618
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:54,119
Speaker 8: change is the structure of roster. Construction that's what it.

619
00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:57,040
Speaker 8: Changed if you remember last, year everybody tried to Be.

620
00:26:57,119 --> 00:27:01,120
Speaker 8: Boston everybody wanted to shoot. Three, okay with What boston,

621
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,399
Speaker 8: did they got a fifty three's a, Game so that

622
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:06,480
Speaker 8: seems to be the way to, success so everybody started doing.

623
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 8: THAT i can tell you WHAT i know now and

624
00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:13,919
Speaker 8: watching this year and watching the. Finals the king of

625
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 8: THE nba right, now the overall. King nothing matters more

626
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:23,920
Speaker 8: in THE nba than. Versatility versatility is king and depth is.

627
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 8: Queen that's how it is. Now right you remember last,

628
00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 8: year no one talked about that because they've been. Old

629
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:33,920
Speaker 8: with freeze, analytics we get up more threes than their.

630
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:38,560
Speaker 8: Twos right, Now versatility is king and depth is. Queen

631
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,640
Speaker 8: that's how it looks because if you look at Why

632
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:45,399
Speaker 8: Oklahoma city was successful all year, long the reason That

633
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:49,280
Speaker 8: indiana was successful is because they came in. Ways they

634
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:51,679
Speaker 8: came in the. Ways it wasn't about one or two.

635
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:55,199
Speaker 8: PLAYERS i said before this year, STARTED i no longer

636
00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:59,240
Speaker 8: believe and we'll get behind teams that are skipping steps

637
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:02,680
Speaker 8: with all dom s. Make Kevin durant is one of

638
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 8: my favorite players of all. Time BUT i dislike What houston.

639
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:08,400
Speaker 8: Did what they.

640
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:10,159
Speaker 4: Did we were about to go there, Next so that

641
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:12,520
Speaker 4: was gonna be the. Question just you, know, hey it's not.

642
00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:14,359
Speaker 4: Finalized what looks like this is going to be the.

643
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:16,879
Speaker 4: CASE i Loved i've loved it for a couple of.

644
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 4: Weeks i've been saying. THIS i thought it was a perfect.

645
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:19,919
Speaker 4: Fit you, say, no why is?

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00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:23,720
Speaker 8: That Because, okay let me ask you a. Question win

647
00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:27,919
Speaker 8: is the last championship team to go big game hunting

648
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 8: and for it to.

649
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:32,760
Speaker 4: Payoff i'm trying to actually THINK i was about to

650
00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:33,640
Speaker 4: say the twenty Twenty.

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00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:37,560
Speaker 5: Lakers, davis, Right but.

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Speaker 8: If you look at these champions they are winning because

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Speaker 8: they're going after guys that understand their. Roles the True,

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Speaker 8: holidays The Derek, wrights THE. Pj, tuckers The Alex, crusoe's

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Speaker 8: The Isaiah, hartenstein's these kind of. Guys BUT i don't

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Speaker 8: believe In skippy steps ADK.

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Speaker 4: D MAYBE kd is Not Kevin durant of, all meaning

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Speaker 4: maybe he is just a cog in this, thing a.

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Speaker 4: PIECE i, mean this isn't eight years ago where you

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Speaker 4: had a different. Expectation if you're The, warriors this one a,

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Speaker 4: man just come, here some, miranges some, threes give us

662
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 4: twenty three a game and we're good to.

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Speaker 5: Go Not Katie.

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Speaker 8: Evold but the thing, is when you're talking about a

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Speaker 8: guy And Kevin durant over the last three years that

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Speaker 8: ever's twenty five points of a game on fifty forty

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Speaker 8: ninety from the. Field he has more respect And cashet

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Speaker 8: do anybody else on That houston russing. Team this is

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Speaker 8: the thing about. Stars they're, great but they have the

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Speaker 8: tendency because of their, resumes to disrupt chemistry because now

671
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Speaker 8: you have to build around, them you have to playcate to.

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Speaker 8: Them there's a reason it didn't work in. Seeding Devin

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Speaker 8: booker is, Amazing Kevin durant is. Amazing Radley bill is really.

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Speaker 8: Good why didn't it? Work why didn't that? Work but

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Speaker 8: because you need. Guys you need to bring in guys

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Speaker 8: that are willing to simply play a. Role AND i

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Speaker 8: hear what you're, Saying kelvin About Kevin. Durant maybe he's

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Speaker 8: not you, know THE Mvp Kevin durant that was In Oklahoma.

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Speaker 8: City but the dude is still better than anybody else

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Speaker 8: on That Houston rocket. Team and it brought him man

681
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Speaker 8: to play through him down the.

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Speaker 7: Stretch, NO i, mean they absolutely, did especially when you

683
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:18,000
Speaker 7: watch the way that that offense died in the postseason.

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Speaker 5: Simpatico right here on that.

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00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 7: One but you said something that triggered me, again talking,

686
00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:26,479
Speaker 7: about you, know the winning and skipping steps and so.

687
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:29,240
Speaker 7: On no one is gonna fall or Say Oklahoma city

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Speaker 7: is skipping. Steps but one THING i also know is

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Speaker 7: true of winning is guys want to get. More not

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Speaker 7: NECESSARILY i want to say respect for, it but guys

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00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:40,280
Speaker 7: want to get paid for. It and none of This

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Speaker 7: Oklahoma city team outside Of Shake, guilders has gotten paid.

693
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 7: Yet how do you think that that dynamic impacts this

694
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Speaker 7: team going? FORWARD i see a lot of people projecting

695
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:54,760
Speaker 7: multiple championships are multiple years of success without the Little harry.

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Speaker 7: Notion if you're gonna have to pay all these, guys

697
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Speaker 7: AND i think that can cause issues in your.

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Speaker 5: CHEMISTRY i, Agree.

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Speaker 8: MARTIN i, agree because the thing, IS i don't know

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Speaker 8: with THE, cba which many people are calling The Dynasty,

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Speaker 8: killer how you can possibly keep this whole thing. TOGETHER

702
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 8: i don't know, how because you're gonna have to lose

703
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 8: somebody Because Isaiah hartenstein they just took care of. Him Alex,

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00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:22,320
Speaker 8: crusoe they just took care of. Him, Right you're gonna

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Speaker 8: have to Pay Ted, Homewards you're gonna have to Pay Ja.

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Speaker 8: Dove so maybe it's somebody like Lou dort that has to.

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Speaker 8: Go and the thing, is those guys. Matter so it's

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Speaker 8: not as easy as, saying, ah, well you know what

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Speaker 8: you Got Casey, wallace or you Got Alex crusoe that

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00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 8: can replace. Him what May Oklahoma city so good is

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00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 8: their depth and the fact That Lou dort can come

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00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 8: out and you can go in With Alex. Caruso so

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00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:49,240
Speaker 8: when you lose, one you're losing a. Lot maybe It's Aaron,

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Speaker 8: wiggins you, know maybe It's Isaiah joe because what teams

715
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 8: are going to try and Do they're going to try

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Speaker 8: and lure some of these guys away From Oklahoma city

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Speaker 8: that helped them win This world.

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Speaker 4: Championship of, COURSE i think earlier point that's WHAT i

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Speaker 4: was saying.

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Speaker 5: Too we've talked about.

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Speaker 4: This you look at The, thunder you look at The,

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Speaker 4: pacers you look At, orlando you look at The. PISTONS

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Speaker 4: i think there's a bunch of teams that are just building.

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Speaker 4: Up young got a guy In kate K, CUNNINGHAM, sga

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00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 4: you name the, team and then now they're building where they.

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00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 4: Found everybody has a role and let's just see what

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00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:22,720
Speaker 4: happens in the next two three. Years and not to,

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Speaker 4: mention we're gonna talk about later in the. Week The

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Speaker 4: east just opened up with a lot of these, injuries

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Speaker 4: so we'll talk about that another. DAY a D as, always,

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Speaker 4: Brother thank you so. Much appreciate you for.

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Speaker 8: SURE i appreciate you.

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Speaker 5: Guys that's great, night all? Right is that? Time Last?

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Speaker 8: Call?

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Speaker 5: Sports? Ready what's? That? Richard?

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Speaker 2: Good even gentlemen listen to you every, day even When rob's.

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Speaker 5: On appreciate, it even when is. CRAZY i.

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Speaker 2: Theories everybody's all sports STATIONS i listened to every. Day

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Speaker 2: they were talking about these two small markets that aren't

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Speaker 2: going to draw any, viewerships but it's the most viewership in.

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Speaker 2: THERE i think that point be. DREW i, mean why

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Speaker 2: why would two small markets game that kind of market

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Speaker 2: share for no?

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Speaker 4: Reason, WELL i just appreciate the, Call. Richard my initial

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Speaker 4: answer is gonna Be game. SEVEN i, MEAN i just

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Speaker 4: it's A game. Seven i'll finally tune. In i've been you,

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Speaker 4: KNOW i had seen it Haller. Burton you know he

784
00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:55,239
Speaker 4: obviously Played game six and you're just thinking what's gonna

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Speaker 4: happen with magical? Things so for, me game, seven and

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Speaker 4: because of the Last game Seven martin. Sixteen so it

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Speaker 4: wasn't like we had Three game, sevens because then we

788
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Speaker 4: could judge them up to Other game, sevens right most

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Speaker 4: watched game since twenty. Nineteen but had we had some

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Speaker 4: Other game, SEVENS i have a feeling this would have

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Speaker 4: been lower rated than the.

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00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:15,520
Speaker 7: OTHERS i agree That game seven is the reason why

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00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:17,920
Speaker 7: we kind of got to this high point of, ratings

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Speaker 7: BUT i also think that And i'm not saying that

795
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 7: the caller and question is the reason why.

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00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 5: THIS i think the conversation ABOUT nba ratings is one

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Speaker 5: that is done, very very.

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Speaker 7: Disingenuously if you look back to when it started and

799
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 7: why it started and what people were talking, about it

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00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:38,800
Speaker 7: is now morphed into, why like the small market, Conversation

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Speaker 7: shack said it best to me in today's day and,

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Speaker 7: AGE i do not believe in the idea that there

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Speaker 7: is a small MARKET nba. TEAM i think that idea,

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00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:51,319
Speaker 7: died ironically enough With Oklahoma city when you Had Kevin,

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00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:55,439
Speaker 7: Durant Russell, Westbrook James harden three MVPs on the same.

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00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 5: Roster the social media is the new.

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Speaker 4: Market that's where the, JUICES i would, argue even before,

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00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:06,719
Speaker 4: Them lebron And cleveland made them relevant for before he

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Speaker 4: even went To, miami just when he wasn't even winning

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00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 4: championship but winning fifty five sixty, games.

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Speaker 5: And you tune it.

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Speaker 4: IN i, mean you wouldn't want to See lebron go

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00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 4: up Against Derrick rose and The bulls and those, five

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00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 4: six or Seven pistons and eventually the Eight boston teams

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Speaker 4: and all of. That so to, Me lebron is face

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Speaker 4: of the league or at least young depending on when

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Speaker 4: you want to. Say it all started the face of

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00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:30,600
Speaker 4: the league In. Cleveland to, me that was to, say, hey,

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Speaker 4: dude you got a massive the guy In. Cleveland everyone's tuning.

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Speaker 7: In to, Me lebron was the litmus, test The canary

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Speaker 7: and the Coal, mine The Oklahoma city, thunder where the

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Speaker 7: this is, real like because they weren't boring like The

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Speaker 7: spurs were Of Tim duncans are and so. ON i

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Speaker 7: think that that has most to do with. Anything, also

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Speaker 7: the other thing reason, why it's the marketing of this. Stuff,

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Speaker 7: Man like WHEN i was a, kid AND i Know.

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Speaker 5: I'll have to go back when my back in my,

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Speaker 5: day just go back and watch the.

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Speaker 7: Shows it just the read there was a reason why

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Speaker 7: people were clamoring for nostalgia watching these finals is because

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Speaker 7: it was presented like a big.

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Speaker 4: Deal if Then rob said, HERE i sat here and

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Speaker 4: to make this feel. SPECIAL i remember it being a big.

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Speaker 4: Deal was AN nba, final? Right you, can't, man where

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Speaker 4: are you watching? It y'all want to go, Out you

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Speaker 5: Crib let's it? Felt to be, honest this is what.

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Speaker 7: Happened in my, estimation you HAD covid, happened so that

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Speaker 7: died right the idea of going out watching the game

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Speaker 7: with your, buddies because that was the thing one hundred

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Speaker 7: Giannis they win but don't cut back and they have.

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00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:44,880
Speaker 7: Injuries and Also janni's wasn't the guy best player not

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00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 7: taking the final shot?

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Speaker 5: RIGHT a lot of time Those Chris.

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Speaker 7: Middleton you Got jokic out, there who is not necessarily

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Speaker 7: Back steph got the one right along the, way But

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Speaker 7: that's the preason, why in my, opinion because we have

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Speaker 7: the same. Repeat that's WHAT i keep telling everybody wants.

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Speaker 7: PARODY i, said, no you. Don't you Want beast And

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Speaker 7: Jason Smith show With Mike harmon is coming up.

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