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Speaker 1: Rob Parker kelvin Washington on a worship Wednesday here on

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Speaker 1: So that is something you definitely need to do. Here

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Speaker 1: on the Odd Couple. A lot of stuff to get to.

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Speaker 1: Lord Murray, who covers the NBA for the Athletic He'll

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Speaker 1: jump on in about twenty eight minutes or so.

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Speaker 3: Also last call, so still a lot to get to

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Speaker 3: on this big day. A couple of big NBA stories.

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Speaker 1: Janni's obviously ready to go, Chris Paul gone, that and

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Speaker 1: much more.

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Speaker 3: But we go back to Gianni's where we started this program.

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Speaker 5: Kelvin, Yeah, I mean that's you know, some news. We

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Speaker 5: thought that Chris Paul would be the big news, but

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Speaker 5: then also Jannis decided to jump in and reported his

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Speaker 5: agents had a chance to actually, you know, to request

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Speaker 5: that they want to have a meeting and figure out

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Speaker 5: where the direction of this team going.

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Speaker 4: Robgi.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, well, before we give it into that, Deanna's actually

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Speaker 6: played tonight for a few minutes. That is because he

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Speaker 6: left the game early with what they're calling a calf injury.

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Speaker 6: If he watched the video, non contact, He's going to

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Speaker 6: the rim passing the ball, comes around the other.

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Speaker 6: Hopefully it's nothing more than a calf strain, but that

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Speaker 6: could complicate his murky future with the Bucks because you

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Speaker 6: mentioned it. According to ESPN, he and his representatives will

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Speaker 6: be talking to the Bucks front office here in a

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Speaker 6: couple of weeks to discuss his future with the franchise.

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Speaker 6: All signs pointing to you. However, him finally after months

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Speaker 6: and years of speculation, demanding a trade out of town.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I thought we would be here, Rob

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Speaker 5: and I you know, we talked about it, Rob, you know,

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Speaker 5: And I thought this was gonna happen because I thought

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Speaker 5: He started to be vocal about things, and to something

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Speaker 5: you always bring up, he kind of felt like he

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Speaker 5: ride this thing out. But over the last two three years,

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Speaker 5: he's been making He's been louder, right, he's been a

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Speaker 4: Little bit more what are we doing? Where are we going?

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Speaker 4: Which he's earned that right too, by the way, last year.

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Speaker 1: They had a chance to do that and he didn't

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Speaker 5: Right, No, But he's but he's been him, he's been

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Speaker 4: Multiple this isn't good.

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Speaker 1: I mean when he asked for Damian Lillard, like when

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Speaker 1: he asked and they traded away everything for Damian Lillard.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So I'm saying he's don't understand this at all.

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Speaker 1: To me, I just don't understand what point of I

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Speaker 3: Ask him about.

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Speaker 5: But I'm saying, I'm saying to your point, one of

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Speaker 4: He's been that guy. He is first ballot Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 5: When I look back, and we talked about this a

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Speaker 5: I'm not saying he had to win three, four or

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Speaker 1: I expected, once he's on the talented teams in the

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Speaker 4: Good as he is. There's not. That's literally why we

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Speaker 3: Miami's been to the finals a couple of times.

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Speaker 5: And not a single time you name made me look

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Speaker 4: He should not look at that as well. I can't

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Speaker 1: Lebron didn't go to the finals every year in the

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Speaker 5: No, right, we're talking about the East. I literally, that's

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Speaker 5: I don't think it's that he hasn't dominated out to be.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that Gianna should be in the finals

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Speaker 3: I think that's a pipe dream. I just don't believe that.

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Speaker 1: Yanna's how about christ Middleton and the other players are there,

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Speaker 5: What I'm saying is there's no way Rob that he

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Speaker 1: As, I would tell you blindly that he won a

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Speaker 1: Kareem Abdul Jabbar was lu Al Sinda. I mean, like,

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Speaker 1: what do he just stop. No, that doesn't mean to stop.

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Speaker 1: He tells you something. I just know what you but

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest that you think everybody like you

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Speaker 1: or the idea that Giannis can't get beat or he

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Speaker 4: I don't know what you expected. I don't even know

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Speaker 5: You throwing some bell that I ain't never see you

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Speaker 5: a Bill bondsman right now, as great as he is,

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Speaker 1: Does not have play to a great and dominant and

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Speaker 5: I said, you can't even regularly when he's two conference finals.

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Speaker 5: The fact that he's first round exists. If this were

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Speaker 4: There will be concerns. We're not saying he's not any.

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Speaker 1: Extenuating circumstances are in any extenuating circumstances, No I gave you, No.

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Speaker 4: We do need a tweak. Let's go get you, Dame.

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Speaker 4: You and Dame don't work out.

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Speaker 5: I got Brook Lopez, Bobby port Portis, Drew Holiday and

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Speaker 4: Doesn't work like and you're so good, you're at.

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Speaker 5: Least I believe. I think we've all been led to

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Speaker 5: I'm not saying these guys gonna have three, four or

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Speaker 5: a decade. What's I think that's a fair point. Hey,

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Speaker 5: Yanni's just not saying you gotta win five, go to

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Speaker 5: Eastern Conference finals, get to them. That's all I'm saying

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Speaker 5: is he's left meat on the bone palls. He's left

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Speaker 4: Again, that's what rob we came into this season is

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Speaker 4: Is like who can win it?

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Speaker 5: And they're underachieving when this should have been a year

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Speaker 1: But I think, I think, I think you're you're you're

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Speaker 3: They choked down that series Doc Rivers is again.

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Speaker 1: They hired him, Jannis wanted uh the coach they had

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Speaker 3: Giannis was the one that signed off. I guess on.

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Speaker 1: Doc Rivers, right, they've choked Where did I get it wrong?

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Speaker 4: That sound like my point with y honest?

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Speaker 1: No, No, your point is my only point is I

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Speaker 1: that you really believe that he should be in the

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Speaker 1: West Eastern Conference finals every year for ten years.

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Speaker 3: I just don't see that. I think there are other

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Speaker 4: I don't. I just don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't see anybody doing that. But you think Jannis

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Speaker 1: has been wasted. I don't think Giannis has been wasted

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Speaker 1: ten times more and I could have ever imagined Janni's

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Speaker 4: You say you expect.

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Speaker 5: I'm saying a couple of final appears, some Eastern Conference

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Speaker 1: In cache that other people don't have. And that's that

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Speaker 1: You didn't You didn't bring up Damien and Lillard and

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Speaker 4: Gonna be perfect. This is great. Look at it.

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Speaker 1: Look at this, Matt, this is gonna work out perfect.

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Speaker 7: No.

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Speaker 3: And I don't care how talented you are. It's harder

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Speaker 1: And not most guys, even Lebron when you think about yeah,

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Speaker 3: He's been playing the league twenty what four years? He

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Speaker 5: Twenty four years to be getting out in the first

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Speaker 4: All right, the calls card and flat, hot and heavy.

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Speaker 5: Rob and I talking about I essentially think Gianni's at

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Speaker 1: So we got all right, let's go Trent in Wichita.

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Speaker 1: You're in the couple of Fox Sportsuaitia.

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Speaker 4: What's up?

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Speaker 9: Trent?

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Speaker 8: Still listen in y'all outside of outside of the bars, man,

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Speaker 8: I'm not not in jail it still so I'm good man.

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Speaker 3: All right, that's a good thing, Trent, night job, good job.

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Speaker 8: But here you go, Kelvin. The deal is, man is

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Speaker 9: Man.

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Speaker 8: I mean, there's a reason why people don't win at places,

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Speaker 5: Man, Love y'all, I'm with you, absolutely believe they could

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Speaker 4: You think Rob, you think he was his best version

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Speaker 8: No, he was.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna sit there and think that he shouldn't

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Speaker 9: It just is.

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Speaker 3: I give him credit.

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Speaker 5: He didn't of Fame nomination. You didn't stop there. You

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Speaker 4: See here we go. You know, don't about me Kevin

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Speaker 4: footing over city.

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Speaker 3: You're on the yyd couple of Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 7: What's up, Kevin, God, it's good.

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Speaker 4: All the time.

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Speaker 3: Where you been, Kevin, Oh, I was doing Sabrina Carson?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, where you been ducking and hiding?

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Speaker 7: Was a Sabrina Carpenter. We had a short street tour.

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Speaker 7: Uh got crypto. I was looking for you, Kevin. Did

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Speaker 5: Hey, Hey, Sabrina Carpenter, Kevin. She a little more the

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Speaker 4: Grown for my daughters right now. Oh yeah, if you

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Speaker 7: She the reason why I gotta drop that, please please drop.

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Speaker 7: But that Mike like tact that that's what her song.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you're a little too grown for me with my

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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, she's doing a thing.

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Speaker 9: Here's the thing.

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Speaker 7: Janna is because of the accent. He gets away with

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Speaker 7: He gave that up for Lillard with his offense. These

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Speaker 7: and let the GMS in. Just like Kawhi decided, Hey,

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Speaker 7: I don't want shot, I don't want another shot, I

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Speaker 7: Gianna says, It's a player empowerment. And Janni's definitely cost

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Speaker 7: just go shipping players out thinking you're Jerry West or

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Speaker 7: you're Bob Myers or you're Sam Presky. Just play basketball

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Speaker 7: and win your championship. Janna's definitely messed up his window

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Speaker 7: a little bit. I think I definitely think saw.

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Speaker 4: All right, Kevin, thank you, appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: Brother Thomas in our you're in the odd couple of

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Speaker 7: Hey?

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Speaker 9: What's up?

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Speaker 10: Kevin? How y'all doing.

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Speaker 8: Good?

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Speaker 7: How are you?

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Speaker 8: Brother? Well?

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Speaker 7: Doing well, doing.

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Speaker 10: Well, thank you, sir. Hey, so Rob, what you're talking

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Speaker 4: That's not what I said.

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Speaker 1: I said, his stint in Milwaukee is far more than

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Speaker 1: go join the Heat. Do you remember that, Tom? Everybody?

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Speaker 3: Oh, yo, you're dumb. I can't believe you. We signed there.

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Speaker 4: You're dumb. You'll never win.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do my thing, and they want a championship.

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Speaker 1: All I'm and then won a championship since lu Al sinda,

444
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Speaker 1: uh and and uh you know back in those days.

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Speaker 1: All I'm saying is, did I expect him to win

446
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Speaker 1: multiple championships in Milwaukee?

447
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Speaker 2: No?

448
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Speaker 1: I did not, And he won a championship That's all

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, not about being complacent. I can't look at

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Speaker 1: his stint in Milwaukee and say it was a disappointment

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Speaker 1: in any way.

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Speaker 2: I can.

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Speaker 7: I got one more thing, one more.

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Speaker 3: Thomas, Thomas, You think that his stint in Milwaukee was disappointing.

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Speaker 11: No, No, not at all.

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Speaker 10: He beat my Hawks, which was great. The Hawks were

457
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Speaker 10: in a great run that year too. You know that

458
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Speaker 10: was a great postseason personally for me, you know, with

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Speaker 10: the Hawks. But you know I came but two things,

460
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Speaker 10: one more thing, one more thing. You chase two things

461
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Speaker 10: when you become a professional anthlet, you chase either money

462
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Speaker 10: or championships. And I think I speak more an athlete

463
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Speaker 10: to chase championships over money.

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Speaker 5: All right, Well, joannesty, I don't think anybody thinks Giannis

465
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Speaker 5: isn't about championships. I just again, my whole point, Rob

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Speaker 5: is just simply I thought he would dominate more in

467
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Speaker 5: a when it mattered in playoffs. I thought he would

468
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Speaker 5: get to Eastern Conference finals. He would get to finals.

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Speaker 5: That's where I say that it left more to be desired.

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Speaker 5: All right, on the way we got to getting ready

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Speaker 5: to join us is our man law? What's the gift.

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Speaker 4: I've lost my little thing.

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Speaker 5: Right here, we're gonna talk some law Murray, gonna talk

474
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Speaker 5: some Clippers with him. Obviously, big story. CP three right now,

475
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Speaker 5: got check in with Mancy Belanos. I don't know how

476
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Speaker 5: Mancy doing?

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Speaker 4: All right, Monty, thank you so much, Chance Oka. We'll

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Speaker 4: have a great night.

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Speaker 5: Rod Parker kelvin Washington with you on a worship Wednesday.

485
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Speaker 5: And we are joined now by our man Law Murray

486
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Speaker 5: covers the NBA for the Athletic.

487
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Speaker 4: You can follow him at law Murray, the n U

488
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Speaker 4: on ex law Man. Just a normal day around the league.

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Speaker 9: Huh yeah, man, that's how that's how we do. Everyone

490
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Speaker 9: want to sleep and then you get woken up literally.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, they won.

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Speaker 1: Good, go ahead rock Chris Paul and said, hey, hey,

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Speaker 1: pack your bags, you got a ticket out of here. Uh,

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Speaker 1: your your your thoughts on Chris on on Chris Paul

495
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Speaker 1: and obviously he wasn't playing that much. It's not about stats.

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Speaker 1: The team isn't playing well, They're not using him as

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Speaker 1: a scapegoat. There's some other issues, and I think that

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Speaker 1: Chris Paul maybe reacted the way he used to react

499
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Speaker 1: when he was a star in the league, and it's

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Speaker 1: just not the same. It doesn't feel the same when

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Speaker 1: you're not What did you get from this from the

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Speaker 1: people you've talked to?

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Speaker 9: Yeah? Man, I mean, look, a lot of it is

504
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Speaker 9: because stats. If Chris was playing better, or if he

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Speaker 9: was just playing at the level that he was last

506
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Speaker 9: year when he was an eighty two game starter in

507
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Speaker 9: San Antonio, maybe this is a little bit more palatable

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Speaker 9: when you hear Chris coming at you with some truth

509
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Speaker 9: and it sounds like Chris didn't discriminate. You know, I'd

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Speaker 9: be surprised that he did. Chris Paul has been in

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Speaker 9: the NBA for twenty one years, right, so like he

512
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Speaker 9: has a hard owned reputation of squeezing every possession and

513
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Speaker 9: for squeezing every player and every coach that he's been with.

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Speaker 9: You gotta have some thick skin to take it, and

515
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Speaker 9: it helps when you win. Chris usually shows up and

516
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Speaker 9: teams win a little more than they did before he

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Speaker 9: got there. This Clippers team obviously is in a terrible

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Speaker 9: place in that department.

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Speaker 7: So I think.

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Speaker 9: With all of those things considered, yeah, they're very careful

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Speaker 9: not to put it all on Chris. But it's interesting

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Speaker 9: that this was the first domino and that it happened

523
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Speaker 9: when it did.

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Speaker 8: And how it did.

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Speaker 5: Answered be this So we know there's reports that he

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Speaker 5: and Tyler had been talking in weeks that he wanted

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Speaker 5: to have a meeting with Tyleru about some about some things,

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Speaker 5: and Tyler.

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Speaker 4: Just been ignoring him.

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Speaker 5: Where is this organization for kinda from top down, from

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Speaker 5: Steve Balmer to Lawrence Frank to Tyleru. Are they locking

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Speaker 5: stephan Key? Are they all on the same page? Is

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Speaker 5: there some are they all maybe in different places? Where

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Speaker 5: are they right now?

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Speaker 9: I would say that this season is probably the most

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Speaker 9: dysfunctional since the twenty twenty two to twenty three season

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Speaker 9: when Kawhi Leonard came back from vclch here and there's

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Speaker 9: a lot more discord as far as the coaching staff

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Speaker 9: and the front office not being on the same page.

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Speaker 6: Then.

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Speaker 9: Now, mind you, that team still found a way to

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Speaker 9: find over five hundred avoids to play in tournament, gets

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Speaker 9: themselves a seven game series that they would be eliminated

544
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Speaker 9: because their stars weren't available. Bash forward to now, the

545
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Speaker 9: record is so much worse and the issues have revealed

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Speaker 9: themselves so much earlier, but the brain trust is that

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Speaker 9: much more luck in now. We can probably discuss why

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Speaker 9: that is, but the main thing you have to look

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Speaker 9: at is the contracts. I mean, t lewis signed until

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Speaker 9: twenty twenty nine. Steve Bomber has never wavered on his

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Speaker 9: front office and there is not a single player on

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Speaker 9: the team that is signed as long as Kiiran lewis signed.

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Speaker 9: So if there's going to be shake up changes, it's

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Speaker 9: going to involve personnel and the players before it involves

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Speaker 9: changing a head coach or changing GM. And I think

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Speaker 9: the fact is those guys learned from the discord and

557
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Speaker 9: disconnect from three years ago being on the same page.

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Speaker 9: They have failed, but they have failed together. They brought

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Speaker 9: guys in that everyone was on the same page about

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Speaker 9: how they were going to bring those guys in a

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Speaker 9: lot of things didn't work, a lot of those things

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Speaker 9: out of their control. You can inticitate Bradley bal missing

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Speaker 9: twenty to twenty five games and maybe not dropping twenty

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Speaker 9: eight games. You don't anticipate Bradley Beal not playing a

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Speaker 9: single fourth quarter your entire season. That's just not how

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Speaker 9: these things. These decisions get made, these projections get made.

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Speaker 9: It's stuff like that. So I think the people who

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Speaker 9: want heads the role, they're not going to get it.

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Speaker 9: And the people who want to see accountability, it's going

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Speaker 9: to come from the stars first, and the stars are

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Speaker 9: going to get a couple of weeks to a month

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Speaker 9: to figure it out on their own before more drastic

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Speaker 9: measures are taking.

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Speaker 1: Well, do you have a feel for where Giannis could

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Speaker 1: wind up if this whole thing shakes out? He wants

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Speaker 1: to go the Bucks say okay, well, just we got

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Speaker 1: to move on. You don't don't want you don't want

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Speaker 1: to be here. We don't want you here. What do

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Speaker 1: you expect as you're going to wind up in New York,

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Speaker 1: Because you're going to wind up somewhere out west any field.

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Speaker 9: For that, I just hote Giannis is healthy. The injury

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Speaker 9: that jan has suffered tonight is very concerning. He suffered

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Speaker 9: a non contact cast injury, one of those injuries where

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Speaker 9: he jumps, he comes down, maybe comes out funny, try

585
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Speaker 9: to take some steps. Colasses needs to time out to

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Speaker 9: get off the floor. I'm not as going a lip reader,

587
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Speaker 9: but others are. We're gonna find out the next twenty

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Speaker 9: four hours because Giannis is even going to be able

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Speaker 9: to play in the short term or the long term

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Speaker 9: for this season, assuming that he is. Giannis is not

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Speaker 9: an easy basketball player to build around. He's incredibly talented,

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Speaker 9: He's incredibly powerful and forceful with how he plays, but

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Speaker 9: Godnis has had some durability issues tonight, notwithstanding, like he

594
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Speaker 9: has been a player who has missed playoff game, He's

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Speaker 9: been a guy who has struggles to reach seventy games

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Speaker 9: and the way he plays. There's been one head coach

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Speaker 9: in this entire league who has won playoff a playoff

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Speaker 9: series with Johnson and the Kubo, and that's my Budenholzer.

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Speaker 9: And you see where is right now for where he's not.

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Speaker 9: So it's going to be interesting to me to see

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Speaker 9: what team in the middle of the season especially, is

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Speaker 9: going to give up assets and still have a team

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Speaker 9: that is good enough with Giannis to compete for something

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Speaker 9: beyond winning a playoff series. That is something that is

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Speaker 9: very interesting to me. New York has been the team

606
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Speaker 9: mentioned the loudest, but New York isn't so good that

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Speaker 9: they can give up real pieces, integrate Giannis and say

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Speaker 9: that they are objectively better.

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Speaker 5: You know, l Murray our guests here, I want to

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Speaker 5: ask you about another team that we talk about, the Clippers.

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Speaker 4: Let's go to other team here, the Lakers, and keep Giannis?

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Speaker 4: Is there some way?

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Speaker 5: Austin Reeves is having a very very good season for him,

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Speaker 5: But there's still people will say, hey, is Austin Reeves

615
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Speaker 5: the kind of guys if I'm Milwaukee, say gimme Reeves,

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Speaker 5: give me, you know, another player and maybe a future

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Speaker 5: pick or something. That is where is Austin Reeves when

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Speaker 5: it comes to how he's viewed with the Lakers?

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Speaker 4: Is he a must keyboard? Is he a great piece

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Speaker 4: to dangle?

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Speaker 9: He's probably a musk chief. And I'll tell you why.

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Speaker 9: Lebron James is in the final year of his contract.

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Speaker 9: Luka Doncic has signed long term. Austin Reeves is duo raised,

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Speaker 9: and Austin Reeves is going to be an All Star

625
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Speaker 9: this year. He might challenge for All NBA depending on

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Speaker 9: how things shake out. Again, the games played factor is

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Speaker 9: a big one. You know that guy plays games. He's

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Speaker 9: very durable compared to a lot of guys that are

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Speaker 9: in consideration, you know, Monday night, Yeah, the Lakers lost

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Speaker 9: with you notice who went down with a with a

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Speaker 9: with a growing injury as Devin Booker, a player who

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Speaker 9: doesn't exactly play Austin's position. But it's in the same

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Speaker 9: realm where if you're going to be thinking of voting,

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Speaker 9: you know, reasonably, you'd say, oh, Devin Booker, you know

635
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Speaker 9: he's far and awesome Reeves, but you're going to look

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Speaker 9: at the production. You're going to look at the record,

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Speaker 9: and you're going to look at the games play, and

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Speaker 9: we're going to see, you know how that shakes out, right,

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Speaker 9: So I think the Lakers know that it's important to

640
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Speaker 9: have a very good guy next to Luka Dancich who

641
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Speaker 9: can cook Dallas. They had, you know, Jalen Brunston, let

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Speaker 9: him go foolishly, got a life for Rapp and getting

643
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Speaker 9: Tyrie Irvings, but that didn't work right away. And then

644
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Speaker 9: they got Tyriy Irving and Luca on the same page.

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Speaker 9: And even then the team wasn't really good until they

646
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Speaker 9: fortified the roster around those guys. Then they got hot

647
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Speaker 9: enough to make the NBA Finals. It's important to have

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Speaker 9: someone next to Luca who can demand a double team

649
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Speaker 9: create for himself and others, and also just be another

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Speaker 9: guy just insurance. The Lakers probably have two really special guys.

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Speaker 9: I mean, Austin rev reasons the highest scoring number two

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Speaker 9: options in the NBA right now. People don't look at him,

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Speaker 9: and in terms of that, that's how you should refer

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Speaker 9: to him. And Luca is leading league scoring. Austin's leading

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Speaker 9: all number two guys in scoring. You pay that guy

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Speaker 9: and you figure it out from there.

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Speaker 1: Is that because of the postseason with Austin Reevez. He

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Speaker 1: was so disappointing in the postseason. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: he was fully healthy, but there were a lot of

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Speaker 1: people after that, you know, going in all I heard,

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Speaker 1: I don't know where you were. Did you have the

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Speaker 1: Lakers going to the Western Conference Finals, because there were

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Speaker 1: a lot of NBA experts who were all over the

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Speaker 1: Lakers between Luca Lebron and Austin Reeves and then they

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Speaker 1: get knocked out in the first round.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, they won one playoff game and it was very disappointing,

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Speaker 9: I mean reality as they got out coached, like Chris

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Speaker 9: Finch did an excellent job of putting his team in

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Speaker 9: positions to succeed while the Lakers were you know, they

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Speaker 9: had a game where they didn't make a single substitution

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Speaker 9: after Hattome, which is, you know, a risk that you

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Speaker 9: take and when it doesn't work out, you have to

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Speaker 9: own it. And the accountability to own that decision wasn't

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Speaker 9: quite there. Guys were not and they dissuspected Rualdy Gobert,

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Speaker 9: and by the end of that series, Rudy Gobert destroyed them,

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Speaker 9: right Julius Randall. People weren't expecting Julius Randall to be

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Speaker 9: affected in a play off setting because he was never

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Speaker 9: that player in New York. Well, by next day Anthony

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Speaker 9: Edwards must as it did something. Chris Finch put Julius

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Speaker 9: Randall and Anthony Edwards and Rudy Gobert and McDaniels in

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Speaker 9: position to succeed. And that's really put what it came

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Speaker 9: down to, those last three games of that series, Game three, four,

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Speaker 9: and five clutch time games, something where Minnesota struggled all

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Speaker 9: season some more. This year, the Lakers haven't lost a

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Speaker 9: single game in clutch times. They're the only team league

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Speaker 9: that could say that. But the timberwol has won all

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Speaker 9: all those games. It's the margins, right, and so I

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Speaker 9: think when it comes down to Austin Reeves, yeah, I

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Speaker 9: don't think he was one hundred percent in the playoffs,

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Speaker 9: but he's a good player who continues to get better

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Speaker 9: and who is working with this little thing called confidence.

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Speaker 9: If you have confidence in yourself, if you have it

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Speaker 9: from your teammates, if you have it from your coach,

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Speaker 9: and you're not one of those breakers who gets their

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Speaker 9: address dots, then it might show up on the court

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Speaker 9: more frequently. You might be consistently playing that your level

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Speaker 9: or above your level. And I think that's what Austin has.

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Speaker 9: Also got a lot of love from the people that

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Speaker 9: share a locker room with them, share a practice for

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Speaker 9: from share playing with them, and I think those things

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Speaker 9: allow him to be really, really good. I bet you

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Speaker 9: if you traded also, at least the Dallas right now,

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Speaker 9: you wouldn't play as well because it's like, why are

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Speaker 9: you trading me here? Who am I playing with? Is

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Speaker 9: this coach feeling me like I need to be putting

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Speaker 9: the position to succeed in my previous situation? Those little

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Speaker 9: things matter in pro sports, and especially basketball, a sport

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Speaker 9: where you're blinking your tend point lead is gone, and

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Speaker 9: that's just where I feel. Yeah, when you get embarrassed

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Speaker 9: in the playoffs, you have two choices. You can respond

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Speaker 9: or you can succumb.

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Speaker 5: Well, well that obviously if you're at Austrey, if you're

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Speaker 5: definitely are making a name for yourself this season.

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Speaker 4: Man, Law appreciate you as always, brother. Happy holidays to you.

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Speaker 3: Hey, all right, thank you appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: No doubt Lawburry covering NBA for that athletic.

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Speaker 5: Give him a follow, Law Murray the NU Last Call

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Speaker 4: I had it so good today, it was fun. I

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Speaker 4: did pull out. It is the Fox Sports brit Oh.

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Speaker 5: A couple Robin Kelvin one more time for your boys

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Speaker 5: on this worship Wednesday, shout out to Lal Murray just

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Speaker 5: joined us moments to go check out the podcast if

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Speaker 5: you miss any of it. Talk some good hoops stories

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Speaker 5: and headlines with him.

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Speaker 4: It's time now. For last go.

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Speaker 8: Beyond you.

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Speaker 4: Who we got robbed?

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Speaker 3: There you go?

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Speaker 4: I need a tissue for sure?

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 4: Good now is that Rob G Slime?

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Speaker 11: Moar?

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Speaker 3: Rob G.

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Speaker 4: Silmore?

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry?

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Speaker 1: Okay, So it's Ryan from Silmar, California area. The last

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Speaker 1: time here on the couples they Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: What's up ryot Hey guys, long.

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Speaker 11: Time, first time. I just want to bring us to

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Speaker 11: Chris Paul thing. I remember when they got him. They

748
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Speaker 11: got nigger with the coach. You remember that?

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Speaker 1: What can I say this Fox before you jump in,

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Speaker 1: before you jump in, thank you for being a long

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Speaker 1: time listener.

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Speaker 4: We appreciate you for sure. Thank you.

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Speaker 11: All right. Yeah, and they had a couple. I think

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Speaker 11: they beat him the first year, twelve thirteen, I'm not sure.

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Speaker 11: Twenty sixty brings this up. They were up three to

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Speaker 11: one against Houston Rockets. Oh yeah, the colors of the

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00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:09,840
Speaker 11: Rockets remember that. And they blew that series. Seventeen they

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Speaker 11: lost the year saw eighteen, they lost the Portland and

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Speaker 11: then nineteen he went to Houston Rockets and they had

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Speaker 11: game seven.

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Speaker 4: They were up on the Warriors.

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Speaker 11: IM Warriors exactly, and uh they had the worst shooting

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Speaker 11: game of all time on their home floor, and I

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Speaker 11: appreciate Monte's you know, her passion, but he did not

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Speaker 11: take them farther. In twenty twenty one was the farthest

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Speaker 11: they went.

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Speaker 4: I'm glad you brought.

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Speaker 3: Up all of these because I remember all of these

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Speaker 3: moments as well.

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Speaker 4: Appreciate the call.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, there was a lot of bad There was

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Speaker 1: a lot of bad juju in the postseason and.

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Speaker 5: Out of that one where they were up against the

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Speaker 5: Rockets with the Clippers, that was terrible. I mean that

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Speaker 5: you got to win that series in advance, and that's

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Speaker 5: been somebody you mentioned that juju around him, like people

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Speaker 5: are like, man, Chris Paul is not a winner because

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Speaker 5: the time he had a couple of times to advance,

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Speaker 5: you know, with Houston and his hamstring, he's out, so

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Speaker 5: he ends up not playing against the Warriors, he doesn't

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Speaker 5: play and everybody's always, oh, I met a Chris Paul

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Speaker 5: was healthy, no hamstring issues, there a one.

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Speaker 4: He just always had some type of thing would go

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Speaker 4: wrong for them not to advance.

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Speaker 5: But I tell you what, one of the greater runs

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Speaker 5: of his career was with the thunder. We all thought

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Speaker 5: he was going there and it was a rap. It

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Speaker 5: was a bunch of young guns. We thought, man, he's

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Speaker 5: going as you call it, Siberia. We thought he was

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Speaker 5: going there, and all of a sudden, that Okac team

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Speaker 5: was really good. So he definitely had a neck, if

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Speaker 5: you know, for making teams better than that you thought

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Speaker 5: they would be, or better than they were before he

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Speaker 5: got there. But that same guy, that same intensity often

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Speaker 5: can rub people the wrong way, often can wear on

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Speaker 5: people and h and we've seen that. That's why I

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Speaker 5: said he's had if you split his career almost in

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Speaker 5: like ten years, ten years. The first ten years he's

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Speaker 5: the darling of the league, baby face assassin and everybody.

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Speaker 4: He loves him.

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Speaker 5: He's got the great commercials. You know, you're like you

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Speaker 5: knew it was coming, like, oh man, the championship should

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Speaker 5: be coming. The last ten has been Man, he's a

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Speaker 5: dirty player. He's not a winner. He you know, teammates

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Speaker 5: don't like him. So it's been an interesting, you know

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Speaker 5: arc if you will, story arc of Chris Paul over

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Speaker 5: the last you know, twenty years.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no one wants to take away. No one's trying

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Speaker 1: to ruin his resume or act like he's not a

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Speaker 1: great player. It's just that there's a way you got

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Speaker 1: to be real careful at the end of your career

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Speaker 1: on how you go out and how.

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Speaker 4: You treat people.

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Speaker 3: I'm telling you where they talk about it, the way you.

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Speaker 1: Treat people on the way up right, You want to

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Speaker 1: treat people right because on the way down you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean?

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Speaker 3: And people it's happens a lot to people.

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Speaker 4: Hey, and you know what in this business we're in too,

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Speaker 4: it's a small business.

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Speaker 9: You know that.

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Speaker 4: Safe travels my dog, Safe travels. Man.

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Speaker 3: We'll do it again.

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Speaker 4: It's the odd couple we out.

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Speaker 3: The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon is coming up next.

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Speaker 2: I never miss your radio show.

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Speaker 4: I never hear it missing. Did you hear that