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Speaker 1: Bye Jalen Brown. Bye, see you next season. Jalen see you,

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Speaker 1: Jalen Brown, see you fouling out in the third corner. Bye, goodbye.

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Speaker 1: Don't forget to write Yay. There's bors Ankas sit next

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Speaker 1: to him. He's not playing either. Goodbye, goodbye, bye everybody. Hello,

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Speaker 1: Happy Friday, Happy Friday. The Jason Smith Show with my

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Speaker 1: buying should be. Ted Lasso enjoying things courtside the Knicks.

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Speaker 1: I could just listen to this for a second. Two

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Speaker 1: minutes to go in the third quarter, the party is

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Speaker 1: underway at MSG the Knicks lead the Celtice. I should

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Speaker 1: say it like Marv Albert does. The Knicks leave the

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Speaker 1: Celtics eighty nine to fifty one with a minute fifty

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Speaker 1: seven left to go in the third quarter. Uh, it

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Speaker 1: has been all Knicks from the jump. Make it ninety

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Speaker 1: two fifty one. After an og anunobi III, I think

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Speaker 1: Joe Mizuula is gonna call time out and they're all

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Speaker 1: gonna leave. I think the celt just gonna leave and

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Speaker 1: it's just gonna be a big party. Michael Straighthan is excited.

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Speaker 1: This is the look at stuffog you got, you got

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Speaker 1: Marbury there, this is this is a party, Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 1: It is an absolute party. But you're gonna be the

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Speaker 1: disapproving girlfriend with the coat over her arms going we

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Speaker 1: can leave whenever you want to. I know you're having fun,

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Speaker 1: but we can leave whenever you want to. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: play that role tonight. I can already tell. I can

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Speaker 1: already tell, just by your countenance, just by the way

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Speaker 1: you are, just by You're gonna be that. I'm ready

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Speaker 1: to leave I didn't want to go to this party

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Speaker 1: at all. I'm ready to go home.

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Speaker 3: This is where you have your kid who's hopped up

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Speaker 3: on sugar and you let them run around hoping that

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Speaker 3: at some point they just fall out napping. That's where

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Speaker 3: I'm at right now, because I have already had forty

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Speaker 3: minutes of this, yeah, leading into the start of the show.

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Speaker 1: Huh.

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Speaker 3: And I've said for a very long time there's a

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Speaker 3: jealousy to a point of your fandom, okay, and we've

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Speaker 3: tipped past that jealousy of the excitement. Okay, Judy, shut.

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Speaker 1: Up, Okay, alright, I'm not happy when your teams get,

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Speaker 1: you know, the little success they have, so im I

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Speaker 1: thought you'd be happy for me. But okay, to a

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Speaker 1: point where, because you're screaming at at the Dave, they're

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Speaker 1: going to win to go to the Eastern Conference Finals

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Speaker 1: for the first time since I was in my thirties. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but that was presumptive when we got to halftime when

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Speaker 1: Kendrick Perkins said they need to find Jesus to play

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Speaker 1: the second half. That's what he said about the Celtics.

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Speaker 1: They're like any closing thought, get Perk. It's like, you know,

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Speaker 1: what they need. And there's a pause, and you know,

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Speaker 1: everybody on sets looking at him, nervous what he's gonna say.

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Speaker 1: To find Jesus, he said they'd go on a diet

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Speaker 1: if the Knicks blew the lead. They would go on

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Speaker 1: a diet. If the Knicks blew this lead at halftime

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Speaker 1: and they have grown it out. Yeah, it is a

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Speaker 1: the third quarter. Bird and Michale are ready to check

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Speaker 1: in for the Celtics in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 3: I don't even think they would. They don't want any

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Speaker 3: minutes of this. This is where you go find uh

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Speaker 3: what was that guy's?

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Speaker 1: Three? Dino Raja and guys like that. We start bringing

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Speaker 3: But like Jalen Brown did what Nikola Jokic did the

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Speaker 3: I can't make any jokes about him sitting because I

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Speaker 3: for twenty twenty five. But this is a gutless effort, right,

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Speaker 3: You're down six to start the second quarter. You score

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Speaker 3: and then it's like you wave the white flag.

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Speaker 1: Effort. Plays are non existent. You're seeing reaching falls, just

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Speaker 1: sloppy play. It's like no sense of urgency whatsoever. It's like,

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Speaker 1: Let's run the shot clock down to two. And then

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Speaker 1: you're still contesting every shot, because I mean, that's the

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Speaker 1: celebration of what the Knicks have been here. They smelled

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Speaker 1: the blood in the water like any shark movie and

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Speaker 1: full credit to whatever Thibodeau said. It pregame whatever they needed.

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Speaker 3: In the fuel of the New York media to go

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Speaker 3: finish this thing off, because they never let the Celtics

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Speaker 3: to get out of hand in the middle of that

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Speaker 3: second one. Look, and this is why I told you

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Speaker 3: all week when I can't no one believe me when

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Speaker 3: I said I'm fine they lose Game five. I told

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Speaker 3: you we're gonna lose Game five. We're gonna show up

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Speaker 3: and kind of play, all right, well kind of play

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Speaker 3: if the game is there, maybe they try to close

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Speaker 3: in the second half, but it wasn't there. Brunson fouls

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Speaker 3: out of the game five thousand and one quarter, Karl

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Speaker 1: I said, Okay, this is how it's gonna go. But

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a different story on Friday night. What

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Speaker 1: if I said the last two days, Hey, Friday night,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to the Eastern Conference Finals for the first

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Speaker 1: time in twenty two years. I was absolutely fine because

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Speaker 1: I knew this was the next team we were gonna

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Speaker 1: see on Friday. Bad feeling about Wednesday. I knew it

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Speaker 1: there's lots of teams in the NBA that come in

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Speaker 1: to close out type games like the Knicks did, and

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Speaker 1: and you know, like we've seen in the playoffs elsewhere

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Speaker 1: as well, where it's been, Hey, we know we're not

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Speaker 1: going to get the calls, and if the calls go

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Speaker 1: against you in the beginning of the game at Sea,

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Speaker 1: we're not getting him let's put it away for the

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Speaker 1: next game. And that's kind of what the Knicks. Didn't

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Speaker 1: do that strategy. Sure, and I toold it, but tonight

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Speaker 1: and it was going to be a Karl Anthony Towns night,

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Speaker 1: and this was how it was going to go. Guys,

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Speaker 1: didn't believe. You thought I was nervous, and Frostburg's going on,

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Speaker 1: what are you gonna say in game se? We are

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Speaker 1: you saying Game seven? I knew we're never getting to

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Speaker 1: Game seven because this was going to be the game

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Speaker 1: we're going to get tonight.

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Speaker 3: You did not predict a forty point burial and that

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Speaker 3: the Celtics would quit.

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Speaker 1: I said, I said, when I say fifteen, last night,

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Speaker 1: I said ten to fifteen. When we met our I said, no, no,

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Speaker 1: But there's a difference between Hey, we win by ten

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Speaker 1: because down the stretch we're making free throws and finishing

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Speaker 1: the job right Jalen Bronson getting to the fallout versus

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Speaker 1: I should have said fifty. Here win by fifty. Look

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Speaker 1: in in game betting, I was laughing before it was

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Speaker 1: thirty thirty two.

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Speaker 3: When you and I were sitting before we started this

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Speaker 3: soire on a big Friday night party for you. Where

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Speaker 3: it sits now, I can only uh, I can only

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Speaker 3: guess because it's it's bloomed.

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Speaker 5: It is now at it still only thirty three.

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Speaker 3: If you really want to go that, that's basically saying

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Speaker 3: the Knicks are going to quit and start sipping wine.

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Speaker 1: Fourth quarter something like that.

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Speaker 3: They're they're relegated, they have to take half court shots

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Speaker 3: or whatever the case may be. But you know you're officiating.

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Speaker 3: Thing from the other night rings true, and there are

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Speaker 3: a number of times where it's just like, really, that's

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Speaker 3: that's a continuation fall.

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Speaker 1: Again, it's a thirty point game, so who the hell

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Speaker 1: cares thirty five? But at the time it was thirty five.

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Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Towns gets falled quite clearly. Al Horford bangs

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Speaker 1: and three feet off of this spot and then he goes, ah,

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Speaker 1: forget it, I'll take the extra step and throw the

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Speaker 1: ball up, all right, and one it's like what are

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Speaker 1: we doing? So again the officiating issue, but by that

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Speaker 1: point it's long gone. I mean, Jalen Brown tapped out,

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Speaker 1: so all of the talk and we heard this got

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Speaker 1: Jason Tatum isn't there. Just just hang up your microphones,

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Speaker 1: just quit. You know, the record is not always indicative

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Speaker 1: of what you're gonna get, and you can do things

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Speaker 3: We've seen that time and time again in playoffs. We've

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Speaker 3: seen it in the regular season, the heavy underdogs that

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Speaker 3: the NBA, as you alluded to, the all right, it's

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Speaker 3: really not coming together for us. We'll live to see

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Speaker 1: There's no reason to play another twenty labor and you know,

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Speaker 1: laborious minutes when we've got a game two days. Hence,

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Speaker 1: look at what I did there? Yeah, I went on

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Speaker 1: Dictionary and Literary World. But like when you only play

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Speaker 1: five or six guys, why play them? And actually twenty

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Speaker 1: minutes when you're done? So that strategy the other day

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Speaker 1: certainly comes to bear. But from Missoula and Company, like

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Speaker 1: when when exactly need you quit? Like that's the first

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Speaker 1: question I would ask him in the post thing would

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Speaker 1: you quit? The Knicks? Where the Knicks have been playing tonight,

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Speaker 1: they're playing with a twenty five point lead, like the

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Speaker 1: game is tied. There's been no let up. There's been

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Speaker 1: no open shots for the Celtics because the Knicks have decided,

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Speaker 1: hey we're up by twenty six and everything is fine.

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Speaker 1: There's been no running around defensively. It has been there

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Speaker 1: playing this game. Like in fact, you would think the Knicks,

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Speaker 1: if they win this game, would be winning the NBA Finals.

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Speaker 1: The way that the Knicks are playing, the way fans

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Speaker 1: are responding, we will be going to the Eastern You

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Speaker 1: still have two more rounds to finish, but eight more wins.

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Speaker 1: But hey, we're going to the Eastern Conference finals. And

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Speaker 1: the party is like we're winning it all, like that's

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Speaker 1: what it is. But that's okay, But that's party, like

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Speaker 1: that time watching that that connection right and you know

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Speaker 1: me I.

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Speaker 3: One of the mantras of the show is the love

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Speaker 3: of live events because very few places in the world

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Speaker 3: you have energy and agreement of what's going on and

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Speaker 3: the energy going in the same spot. So the fans

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Speaker 3: feeding off the effort, the players feeding back off the fans,

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Speaker 3: and that frenzy. You know, every shot is contested. There's

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Speaker 3: no way, all right, I missed the assignment. It's like no,

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Speaker 3: they're still cursing at each other. You had a play

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Speaker 3: down low where Jalen Brown loses the ball and it

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Speaker 5: May Shalom has been shown ninety seven times.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's nothing he says or plays.

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Speaker 5: Everybody wants to rule the world forty five times.

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Speaker 1: I don't care. Yeah whatever, that doesn't matter. That's counts

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Speaker 1: It's like we're counting down to New Year. All the

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Speaker 3: What do you think the security cost is across the

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Speaker 1: Oh man, You know, not a great night to start

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Speaker 5: Hey, I've been retired six years. Look I need you

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Speaker 1: We got the baseball series that got whatever the hell

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Speaker 1: It is a It's going to be a Knicks final

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Speaker 1: Final four. How many times did they show that Villanova

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Speaker 1: The greatest sporting event in the last five years coming

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Speaker 1: Brock Party in the forty nine ers agree to a

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Speaker 1: was Matthew Stafford last year. But I'll tell you, I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you who's twenty in twelve. Yeah, okay, But also

431
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Speaker 1: the Rams got within a hair's breadth of the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: So there is that where the Niners were sitting and

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Speaker 1: they say, and they had it packed in beginning of December.

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Speaker 3: Set if we're going to do that, you did the

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Speaker 3: stat things, so twenty and twelve is not fifty five.

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Speaker 1: You want to lean a little bit more well, and

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Speaker 1: also talking about a guy that won a Super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: that's been to a couple of super bowl you know,

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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford's kind of had a good one in the

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Speaker 1: last year. And last year he was much better the

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Speaker 1: second half a year than Broughck perty was and he

442
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Speaker 1: nearly got his team to the Super Bowl and his

443
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Speaker 1: guys and they were playing well down the streets.

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Speaker 7: You want to.

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Speaker 1: Argue with me about something that I'm not arguing with

446
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Speaker 1: you about. I'm saying brock Purdy is pretty good. I

447
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Speaker 1: don't know what. Why? Why are you just mad that

448
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Speaker 1: the Knicks are winning?

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Speaker 5: Brought up his stats and dis man so I.

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Speaker 1: Brought up a stats. Is that a great year? Is

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Speaker 1: twenty and twelve a great year?

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Speaker 7: No?

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Speaker 1: Is it a good year? Yes? Did I say it

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Speaker 1: was a good year. It's a good year. It's a

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Speaker 1: good year. The next are winning. I'm sorry, I'm sorry

456
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Speaker 1: the Knicks are winning, but they're winning. I said it

457
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Speaker 1: was a good year. It's a good year. He got

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Speaker 1: He played pretty well. He's a good quarterback. Why did

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Speaker 1: he get paid? He got paid. A lot of reasons

460
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Speaker 1: is because of where he came from in the draft.

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Speaker 1: He's mister irrelevant, right, so when he comes in all

462
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, it looks like you got really lucky.

463
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Speaker 1: And I'm sure the Niners have had to hear and

464
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Speaker 1: John Lynch has had to hear the last few Boy,

465
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Speaker 1: look how lucky we got. They know we got lucky.

466
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Speaker 1: We drafted a guy that we didn't even know if

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Speaker 1: he was going to make the team, and here he

468
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Speaker 1: is now potentially our franchise quarterback who got us to

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Speaker 1: a Super Bowl and young and suddenly is someone that

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Speaker 1: we didn't have to spend a big high draft pick on.

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Speaker 1: We got really lucky, and we can't let the lucky

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Speaker 1: guys leave, because, boy, if you if you got lucky

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Speaker 1: on a guy and let him leave. What does that

474
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Speaker 1: tell you? Now, flip this around, if instead of being

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Speaker 1: mister Irrelevant, brock Purty was taking third overall in the

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Speaker 1: draft like Trey Lance, what would people be saying? What

477
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Speaker 1: would be his contract situation? Are you ready to give?

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Speaker 1: Are they ready to give brock Purty fifty five million

479
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Speaker 1: dollars a year with the number three overall pick in

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Speaker 1: the draft and what he's done so far? Instead, it's more, eh,

481
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Speaker 1: maybe we'll figure out something, maybe we'll franchise you something else.

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Speaker 1: But he's not getting fifty five million because the pedigree

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Speaker 1: of him coming into the league. The team would expect more,

484
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Speaker 1: and the city would expect more, the fans would expect more,

485
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Speaker 1: and the whole push behind why the universal love for

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Speaker 1: brock Purdy is out there wouldn't quite be what it

487
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Speaker 1: is because he seems like he's a lucky fine so

488
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Speaker 1: let we have to reward him and keep him. Whereas

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Speaker 1: if he was a number three overall pick, it would be, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's been good, But is he a guy we want

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Speaker 1: to commit to? Is he really? When you come with

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Speaker 1: that high a pedigree, there's gonna be a different way

493
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Speaker 1: you're looked at Now. It shouldn't matter because once you

494
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Speaker 1: get into the NFL, you get to the NFL and

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Speaker 1: it's okay, Well, it doesn't matter if a guy was

496
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Speaker 1: taking three overall or mister irrelevant. What you do on

497
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Speaker 1: the field is what matters. But because of where he

498
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Speaker 1: came from and where he could have been, there's a

499
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Speaker 1: completely different outlook for his career. And part of the

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Speaker 1: reason why he got paid is because he was he

501
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Speaker 1: was a lucky find. He was he was a he

502
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Speaker 1: was a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

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Speaker 1: That's what and that's part of the reason why Perdy

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Speaker 1: got this fifty five million dollars deal.

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Speaker 3: At some level, you could go to the we've we've

506
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Speaker 3: been able to underpay for several years, so you're owed

507
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Speaker 3: because we certainly see those deals back end of negotiations,

508
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Speaker 3: go back to Kobe's final deal and so many others

509
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Speaker 3: where you're like, is that guy really should he be

510
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Speaker 3: getting this money? He's like, well, he's worth more than

511
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Speaker 3: what he is doing necessarily on the court. Right when

512
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Speaker 3: you look at what he guys are to an organization

513
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Speaker 3: for perty, you're also looking at the larger quarterback landscape

514
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Speaker 3: where he is whether whether he can be great again

515
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Speaker 3: as you reset the offense. Right, a lot of those

516
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Speaker 3: guys are gone. You're hoping Christian McCaffrey comes back. You're

517
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Speaker 3: hoping George Kittle is the guy he was the second

518
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Speaker 3: half at some point father time gets him too, right,

519
00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:19,080
Speaker 3: or wrestling or he becomes a wrestler or the other one.

520
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Speaker 3: But I mean, are you Debo's gone? Like you know,

521
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Speaker 3: you've got all these moving parts. Yeah, Jennings came up

522
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Speaker 3: big for them. So you're hopeful that, all right, a

523
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Speaker 3: year of health whatever you reconstitute that offensive line that

524
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Speaker 3: you trust your brain, your brain trust that you're going

525
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Speaker 3: to be able to make him that guy he was

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Speaker 3: two years ago. If all the component parts are there,

527
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Speaker 3: and the quarterback landscape, look at look at what it's

528
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Speaker 3: a mess, right, we can say all we want, all right,

529
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Speaker 3: next year's draft class looks good, all right in theory,

530
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Speaker 3: and guys can't take shots in theory. But we've done

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Speaker 3: that how many times? Right, and even brought with rock

532
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Speaker 3: per He's class a bunch of guys that never made

533
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Speaker 3: a damn bit.

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Speaker 1: Of a move movement in the NFL. So you found

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Speaker 1: the lucky penny, as you like to say.

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Speaker 3: So, Yeah, there's a there's a little bit of that

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Speaker 3: of of hey, now the expectation, but once you start playing. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean we've heard for two years. Should they paid

539
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Speaker 3: brock Purty. That's been a very hot debated topic, certainly

540
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Speaker 3: in the world of sports TV and radio.

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Speaker 1: And I look around and like, where.

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Speaker 5: Where do you place him?

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Speaker 3: He's still top ten, top twelve guy, Right, he's getting

544
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Speaker 3: paid a seventh just because he's the next man up.

545
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Speaker 5: Yeah, look right, It's.

546
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Speaker 1: All about timing. And that's and that's the other reason

547
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Speaker 1: why did Perdy get paid? Because we're starting to ask

548
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Speaker 1: the wrong questions when a quarterback gets paid fifty who

549
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Speaker 1: deserves fifty million? Fifty five million? Because that's a big

550
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Speaker 1: way brock Purty deserved this money. I can give you

551
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Speaker 1: a better answer than that, because I'll tell you it

552
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter if you think he deserves the money or

553
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Speaker 1: he doesn't. When a team, teams know that it is

554
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Speaker 1: miserable without a quarterback, they know life is absolutely miserable

555
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Speaker 1: because they see the teams that every year try to

556
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Speaker 1: churn through and try to find a quarterback. Jets have

557
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Speaker 1: been trying to find a quarterback for thirty years. Like

558
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Speaker 1: when you find a guy who all he's got to

559
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Speaker 1: do is be a periphery top fifteen quarterback, right like party,

560
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Speaker 1: you know Purty is he at his best, He's a

561
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Speaker 1: periphery top ten, probably more of a twelve or fifteen,

562
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Speaker 1: but he's someone that is good enough you can win

563
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Speaker 1: with him, and he doesn't need to be replaced. And

564
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Speaker 1: when teams have a quarterback like that, now we're gonna

565
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Speaker 1: keep him. We're gonna give him what we need to

566
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Speaker 1: because A, it's a quarterback and B it's miserable with

567
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Speaker 1: that are we gonna do better if we let him go?

568
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Speaker 1: This is why Trevor Lawrence got fifty five million, tremendously overpaid,

569
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Speaker 1: because the Jaguars way, we took him high, and boy,

570
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Speaker 1: things could always be worse even though he's not that great.

571
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Speaker 1: Why did Gino Smith get a three year extension with

572
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Speaker 1: the Raiders? They've been living. They know what life is

573
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Speaker 1: like without a quarterback. So let's take a guy who

574
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Speaker 1: probably is, you know, a league average, maybe a heiny

575
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Speaker 1: bit more than league average at his best. This is

576
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Speaker 1: why guys get these extensions, because they know how miserable

577
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Speaker 1: life is. So it doesn't it's not that a guy

578
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Speaker 1: needs to be a top seven, top eight guy to

579
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Speaker 1: get paiding more. It's just if you're a top fifteen

580
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Speaker 1: quarterback or someone we don't feel the need to replace,

581
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Speaker 1: we're gonna give you a lot of money because we

582
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:21,360
Speaker 1: know how miserable life is without a quarterback. Those two reasons,

583
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Speaker 1: that's why I brought perty got paid. Well, you're the

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Speaker 1: guy in the room.

585
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Speaker 3: So you know, in the case of the Jaguars, it's

586
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Speaker 3: a have we failed this guy and we don't want

587
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Speaker 3: him to go be successful somewhere else. Right, he was

588
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:34,480
Speaker 3: supposed to be the chosen one, right, We laugh about it.

589
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 3: Use the Star Wars line all the time. Generational guy.

590
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 3: That's what he was coming out of college. Didn't they

591
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:40,560
Speaker 3: do him right?

592
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Speaker 1: Right? Go back to Urban Mile.

593
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Speaker 3: If you admire and everything that went down there. If

594
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Speaker 3: you're shot Cohn or you're sitting there and you're making

595
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 3: the evalue, it's like, well, can we give him one

596
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:52,439
Speaker 3: more shot? Try to put some talent around him, and

597
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:55,600
Speaker 3: maybe it works, right, you make the big swing, you

598
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Speaker 3: go get a big star to come alongside, and maybe

599
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:03,199
Speaker 3: he gets juice from that. But you know, for the

600
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Speaker 3: forty nine ers, they're one of the few teams where

601
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Speaker 3: you say organizational stability is something that they come to

602
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:11,880
Speaker 3: the table with with the luxury of all right, we've.

603
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Speaker 5: Watched Brock succeed.

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Speaker 3: What are the things that have made him successful in

605
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Speaker 3: the past, and just owing it to star power is fine?

606
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Speaker 1: All right? Ayuk has been good, degrade at times, debo

607
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 1: when utilized properly. Before he started carrying the ball eight

608
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:31,440
Speaker 1: times a game and getting broken in half, it got cute, right,

609
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 1: it works two times a game.

610
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:35,159
Speaker 3: Hey, you know what if we did it five times

611
00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 3: a game would be even better. Oh wait, he's not

612
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Speaker 3: eligible to play these last couple of games. The doctors

613
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:40,760
Speaker 3: won't clear him.

614
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 1: Damn it.

615
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Speaker 5: Maybe we went too far.

616
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Speaker 3: But all of that and banking on McCaffrey's legs for

617
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 3: another year with the amount of usage, but all of

618
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 3: that to say you believe that with the right structure

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Speaker 3: and right players, that Brock perty's that guy. Why go

620
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Speaker 3: searching in the wasteland that is free agency or the

621
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Speaker 3: roll of the dice of the draft. You did that

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Speaker 3: with Trey Lance. Yeah you remember that that didn't work?

623
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, look, and then because that's that's you know,

624
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Speaker 1: go to go back to my first point about getting

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Speaker 1: you know, taking you know, and making sure you pay

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Speaker 1: brought party. Also, that gets into that, Okay, well we

627
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:18,280
Speaker 1: got lucky getting the guy, and we spent the third

628
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 1: overall pick. We traded up to get this guy, and

629
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Speaker 1: Trey Lance gave them nothing. So that's more pressure to say,

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Speaker 1: we really got to keep Purty because we thought we

631
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Speaker 1: had the quarterback position right for the next decade. And

632
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 1: the guyst even on the team anymore. So that's more

633
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 1: of the pressure of we gotta keep Purty. It's look there,

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Speaker 1: you're in a perfect spot right now. If you're a

635
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 1: quarterback and you can be a league average guy, you're

636
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:41,719
Speaker 1: gonna get paid, and you're gonna get paid a lot.

637
00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:44,240
Speaker 1: You're gonna get forty fifty million dollars a year. That

638
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:46,680
Speaker 1: that's how it's three years ago was you're really good,

639
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 1: you'll get twenty five million year. But now we have

640
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 1: double bat in the last three years. That's it.

641
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 3: The escalation of the salary. There, wide receivers, cornerbacks, you

642
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 3: name it, all the way through down to your edge rushers.

643
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Speaker 3: Making it what I say, I need to protect sure,

644
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 3: I need an attacker, I needed passer.

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Speaker 1: right now in the wide world of sports. From someone

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Speaker 1: who's been called the Boston Celtics of Fox Sports Radio. Oof,

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Speaker 1: she's had a long day and is ready to go home.

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Speaker 1: It's Montys. I mean I have had a long day.

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Speaker 1: I'm not ready to go home just yet.

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Speaker 2: But that is That was good.

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Speaker 8: That made me laugh.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: It was all Nicks total domination from start to finish

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Speaker 8: against the Celtics. One nineteen to eighty one was the

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Speaker 8: final score. All five of New York's starters ended in

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Speaker 8: double digits, but Jalen Brunson, Karl Anthony Towns, og Onnobi,

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Speaker 8: and mckel bridges all ended with twenty or more points.

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Speaker 8: Jalen Brown, fouled out late in the third quarter for Boston,

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Speaker 8: ended with twenty and was the leading scorer for the Celtics.

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Speaker 5: So the Knicks are gonna face.

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Speaker 8: Indiana on Wednesday in Game one of the Eastern Conference Finals.

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Speaker 8: Congratulations to you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you go New York, New York Go.

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Speaker 8: On another NBA news, Nuggets bard Aaron Gordon has been

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Speaker 8: diagnosed with the left hamstring strain and his status is

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Speaker 8: in doubt according to ESPN. For Game seven against the

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Speaker 8: Oklahoma City Thunder, which is on Sunday. In the NHL,

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Speaker 8: the Maple Leaves kept their season alive.

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Speaker 1: Lease Corral get it out at setter, brought to the

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Speaker 1: line and hard to the Neti paccheratte Go fuck paccharatte

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Speaker 1: pounded home at a deflection on a great player to

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Speaker 1: the front of the net. The Lates lead and they

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Speaker 1: hold on.

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Speaker 8: They beat the Panthers in game six to zero, so

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Speaker 8: they're headed to a game seven. And they were scoreless

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Speaker 8: up until the last ten minutes of the third period

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Speaker 8: and the Maple Leaves pull it out. They stay alive

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Speaker 8: in the NHL playoffs. In baseball, the Pirates are now

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Speaker 8: on top of the Phillies, saying thanks to a three

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Speaker 8: run shot from Alexander Canadio, it's three to one against

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Speaker 8: the Phillies.

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Speaker 1: Bottom of the seventh inning.

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Speaker 8: Bottom of the ninth inning, with the Cardinals on top

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Speaker 8: of the Royals ten to three after seven innings, the

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Speaker 8: Astros are beating the Rangers six to two. The Twins,

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Speaker 8: who have won eleven in a row, trying to make

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Speaker 8: it twelve. Right now, they're shutting out the Brewers three zero,

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Speaker 8: and they're about to start the bottom of the ninth inning.

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Speaker 8: In Milwaukee, the Diamondbacks on the scoreboard first against the Rockies, three.

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Speaker 1: Zero, top of the fourth inning.

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Speaker 8: The Mariners also on top of the Padres, three zero,

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Speaker 8: bottom of the fourth Angels on the scoreboard first against

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Speaker 8: the Dodgers in the freeway series, to zero, bottom of

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Speaker 8: the second inning.

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Speaker 1: The Yankees did defeat the Meds six to two.

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Speaker 8: Aaron Judges batting four fourteen Aaron Judge, he was two

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Speaker 8: of four and today's win Juan Soto wins zero for

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Speaker 8: two with two walks in the loss.

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Speaker 1: The Tigers held on five to four against the Blue Jays.

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Speaker 8: Detroit is the first team to reach thirty wins.

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Speaker 1: Back to you, guys, thanks a bunch, Yes Smith Mike

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Speaker 1: Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Coming up next,

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Speaker 1: we'll break down what we saw and I already have

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Speaker 1: my first fearless prediction for the Conference Finals. It's next

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Speaker 1: right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon Live from the

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio Studios. It is over in New York.

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Speaker 1: It has been over for a couple of hours. But

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Speaker 1: it was a party, the biggest party MSG has seen.

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Speaker 1: There were more. I think there were more stars at

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Speaker 1: the game they showed in the final five minutes than

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Speaker 1: I think at a Hollywood premiere.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think they all realized they were going to

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Speaker 3: get massive screen time in the final minutes because there

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Speaker 3: was nothing else really going on once you got back

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Speaker 3: into the second.

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Speaker 1: Halves, like, all right, who else is here?

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Speaker 3: If you were sitting in Rod thirty seve, yeah, they

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Speaker 3: showed you if you got an opportunity to be on

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Speaker 3: screen in a row.

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Speaker 5: Who's that guy?

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Speaker 1: He was the fifth lead of some movie from nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety seven, But he's here tonight. He was He was

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Speaker 1: in season four of Sons of Anarchy. He played a guy.

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Speaker 5: Uh, it was a third gang member. Can tell you

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Speaker 5: this a second.

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Speaker 1: I got a real quick story for we do play

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Speaker 1: the day. I found out yesterday that one of Zoe's

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Speaker 1: teammates on her softball team. Her dad's an actor and

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Speaker 1: was in Sons of Anarchy. No kidding was what had

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Speaker 1: a pretty big role in one season. I was like,

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Speaker 1: oh my goodause because Pam goes because doesn't he look

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Speaker 1: like I said, yes, Oh my god. He ran the

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Speaker 1: one Niners. He ran the one Niners after they killed

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Speaker 1: le Roy sorry spoiler he killed me. He ran the

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Speaker 1: one Niners. I was like, oh my god, I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I want to go say something to him, like, hey,

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Speaker 1: how's the one Niners doing. I was like, oh my good.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, he ran the one Niners.

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Speaker 3: Gotta be careful though, who I mean, you've had incidents,

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Speaker 3: you know, yeah, urinals in other places that sometimes could

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Speaker 3: get out of sorts.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, No.

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Speaker 1: I met Bruce Willis at a year at All and

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Speaker 1: it was, you know, it was a little weird. It's

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Speaker 1: a little weird. Started quoting or what.

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Speaker 5: You'd be Kay, did you every redo moonlighting?

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Speaker 1: brings us the play of the day, and well, there's

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Speaker 1: so many plays we could choose from. But how about

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Speaker 1: this when even the most staunchest of diehard Celtics fans

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Speaker 1: had to realize, Okay, it's over for us. When you

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Speaker 1: bury the Celtics, you get to be the play of

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Speaker 1: the day.

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Speaker 9: Pam gets the rebound with the shot clock turned off.

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Speaker 9: If you want to knock off the champions, you have

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Speaker 9: to play like champions.

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Speaker 7: And the Knicks did that tonight.

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Speaker 9: What nineteen eighty one away and the outcome that no

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Speaker 9: one in the NBA saw coming aside for the New

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Speaker 9: York Knicks themselves Nicks and six and they're on their

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Speaker 9: way to the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time

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Speaker 9: at twenty five years.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that's even better than Deuce McBride shot at the

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Speaker 1: end of the first half. There's your final call, Knicks

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Speaker 1: Radio Network, The Knicks going on. They go to the

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Speaker 1: conference finals every twenty five years, whether you like it

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Speaker 1: or not, Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 3: No, God, bless, I love the way they play Thibodeau

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Speaker 3: not getting fired. See there you go and everything us

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Speaker 3: and now he's the hero of the New York.

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Speaker 2: He's the gig in New York.

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Speaker 1: Again. I'm the king and he was the You. If

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Speaker 1: you didn't know anything about the game, they had the

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Speaker 1: scoreboard off and they showed you just watched the fourth

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Speaker 1: quarter and you spent most of the time watching TIBs,

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Speaker 1: you would say, are the Knicks losing by twenty? I mean,

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Speaker 1: are the Knicks are we have to go to Game

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Speaker 1: seven against the Celtics on Sunday because no matter what

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Speaker 1: they're up, Forty still got my arms fall. It's almost

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Speaker 1: like he's got his arms crazy glued, so he doesn't

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Speaker 1: have to hold his arms up like it's crazy glued

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Speaker 1: together with his arms folded.

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Speaker 3: Is he found that that's less stress on his shoulders

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Speaker 3: in that position, I think it would be on his

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Speaker 3: back and he's not you know, slump slumping over.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I could do. That would have helped Phil Jackson.

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Speaker 1: Was Phil getting out of that chair? I tell you.

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Speaker 5: But but your you're POINTLATIVEEO.

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Speaker 1: I mean it is key right because on the broadcast

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Speaker 1: and you and I just sitting there It's like we

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Speaker 1: remember Games one and two, huge leads loss from from Boston.

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Speaker 1: Now again they they beat the snot on him. It's

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Speaker 1: the uh, the bine line. I didn't know whether it

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Speaker 1: was gonna quit first, your spirit or your body. Uh

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Speaker 1: And and well here was both because I mean it

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Speaker 1: was a merciless transaction. But you got that call, and

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Speaker 1: so many people had left to go party in the streets.

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Speaker 1: You had the individual voices coming through. It's been it's

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Speaker 1: been a party since the middle of the second quarter

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Speaker 1: for the Knicks, who were in the conference finals. And

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you this right right away what I've been

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Speaker 1: saying all along. Yeah, see you in a few days. Indiana,

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Speaker 1: got a little something something for you. Off for last year.

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Speaker 1: Nixon four, care for what you wish, you're particular. Don't

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Speaker 1: have a choice. I don't have a choice. We're playing

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Speaker 1: the Pacers. Rick Carlisle is already complaining about the officiating.

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Speaker 1: You can just do already out he's already upset. Well,

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Speaker 1: we're better than the Pacers. We're better than they are.

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Speaker 1: You were last year and then everybody got hurt. You

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Speaker 1: know who we finished. We finished the year. Mark Jackson

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Speaker 1: was playing point guard for us. He was actually joyer celebration.

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Speaker 1: He was this next week he was calling the game

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Speaker 1: and playing point guard for the Knicks. He was doing

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Speaker 1: both at the end of the year last Mark Jackson reference. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean it, Rick Carlo. I'm sure Rick Carlo is

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Speaker 1: having a press conference now. I really really helped the

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Speaker 1: officiating gets a call. I helped the big market teams

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Speaker 1: don't get the benefit of the doubt like they tend

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Speaker 1: to because all the because all the calls and nicks

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Speaker 1: have been getting the last twenty five years in the playoffs, Yes,

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Speaker 1: all of them. I'm sure he's complaining about it now.

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Speaker 1: Which who's the more allegiant to Mark Jackson? I mean

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Speaker 1: he has route, he's got, you know, ties to bowl.

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Speaker 1: Does he hate the Knicks because everybody's on board that

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Speaker 1: bandwagen so he can jump on the other side. I

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Speaker 1: think everybody who was once it's like, what the Knicks

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Speaker 1: are one of those teams where once a nick, always

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Speaker 1: a nick, for for good or bad. Right, Once a nick,

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Speaker 1: always a nick, and so you know he's a nick

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Speaker 1: every They're all ex make sure Jr. Smith is a nick.

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Speaker 1: You saw the video he put out the other night

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Speaker 1: when the Knicks went up to nothing on the Celtics.

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Speaker 1: If you played, if you walked onto the arena wearing

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Speaker 1: a Knick's hat, you're a Nick Jr. Smith in that video,

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Speaker 1: watching it and reacting was making sounds I didn't think

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Speaker 1: were human. The squeakiness, pitchiness, whatever, it got weird, it

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Speaker 1: really did. It's like is he stepping on a cat?

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Speaker 1: Everybody gets excited. It's exciting.

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Speaker 5: Oh look, I aspired to that.

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Speaker 3: I'm actually responding to folks on Twitter going, ah, you know,

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Speaker 3: it's not insufferable.

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Speaker 5: I aspire to that level of energy and excitement. I

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Speaker 5: don't have it. I'm chronicling all the winds in my life.

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Speaker 5: Guess what.

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Speaker 1: They always end in fives and none of them in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. Listen, you had a long time, you

861
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:09,760
Speaker 1: had a pope that could have a squashed the Caleb

862
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:13,319
Speaker 1: Williams hate Chicago story. B got you the number one

863
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:14,880
Speaker 1: pick in the draft. And the pope doesn't either of

864
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 1: those things.

865
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 5: But he didn't do this. No, which is a more

866
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 5: Catholic city, Boston?

867
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:21,440
Speaker 1: Oh, you know, Irish or everywhere?

868
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 5: I banded them the Irish, you abandoned the Ie banded

869
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:28,560
Speaker 5: them in the abandon the Boston.

870
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:30,319
Speaker 1: Catholics banded the Irish in their.

871
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:32,839
Speaker 5: Daddy let the Knicks. Not only did they win, they

872
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:34,600
Speaker 5: rolled right over him and.

873
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:37,640
Speaker 1: He did nothing to stop it. Oh you're like, you're

874
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:40,440
Speaker 1: like Delroy Lindo and Sinner's excited to get the Irish

875
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:41,880
Speaker 1: beer from Chicago.

876
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:45,279
Speaker 5: Right well, as soon as he says what it is?

877
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:48,839
Speaker 3: I mean, come on, how excited for you when you

878
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:50,640
Speaker 3: saw Delroy Lindo pop up.

879
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 5: From that harmonica And I didn't know he was in it.

880
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:53,480
Speaker 1: I didn't know he was in it was.

881
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:55,120
Speaker 5: In See, I didn't spoil those for you.

882
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:57,520
Speaker 1: Oh you got a bad pope man, all of ausly,

883
00:40:57,520 --> 00:40:58,800
Speaker 1: he went from the toast of the town. He's a

884
00:40:58,840 --> 00:40:59,560
Speaker 1: bad pope.

885
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:02,200
Speaker 5: Signing grass on baseball, So you Knicks.

886
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:05,879
Speaker 1: In four, we have more on this game and more

887
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:09,640
Speaker 1: in another big story out of the NBA coming up next.

888
00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 1: What is Michael Jordan gonna be doing for NBC? We

889
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 1: think we know? This is Fox Sports Radio.

890
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:20,040
Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

891
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:23,160
Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

892
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:27,400
Speaker 2: pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

893
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:34,320
Speaker 1: I can relax. The Knicks are in the finals. Relax

894
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:38,440
Speaker 1: for a few days until Wednesday night. I can relax

895
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:42,480
Speaker 1: and worry about the Mets in the Subway Series. Relax,

896
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 1: the Knicks are in there. We're gonna sweep the Pacers.

897
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:51,280
Speaker 1: Conference finals. Finals, doesn't matter. Finals. It's like a finals

898
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:53,560
Speaker 1: is there. It's like Andy Bernard when they say, hey,

899
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 1: how is management? How is anger management training? He goes, well,

900
00:41:56,960 --> 00:42:03,600
Speaker 1: management training? Oh, okay, okay. The Knicks are in the

901
00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:06,879
Speaker 1: East Finals. They will take on the Pacers after their

902
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:11,040
Speaker 1: burial of the Celtics tonight. Joining us now from outside

903
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:13,439
Speaker 1: of Madison Square Garden at the top of a light

904
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:16,880
Speaker 1: pole because Knicks fans is celebrating like they won the

905
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:22,160
Speaker 1: finals tonight. Nicks insider John Schmielkey is on Twitter at Shmilk,

906
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:24,880
Speaker 1: longtime friend of the show. How you doing man? You

907
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 1: sent me that picture of you at the game. I

908
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:29,080
Speaker 1: can imagine it must have just been an entire party

909
00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:30,479
Speaker 1: since midway through the second quarter.

910
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:34,120
Speaker 7: Heere, I just drove through the Lincoln Tunnel. I did

911
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:36,320
Speaker 7: not need my car to get home. I could have

912
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:39,759
Speaker 7: floated home or flown home. I just don't want to

913
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:41,920
Speaker 7: have to go back into the city tomorrow morning to

914
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 7: get my car. So this is just convenience.

915
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:46,760
Speaker 4: I could have lumped myself.

916
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:49,160
Speaker 7: From thirty third Street and Eighth Avenue and set my

917
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:50,960
Speaker 7: butt back to Central New Jersey.

918
00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:51,360
Speaker 4: Baby.

919
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:54,799
Speaker 7: Oh man, twel look, still work to do. Let's be

920
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:57,720
Speaker 7: very clear about that. Still work to do. You gotta

921
00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 7: beat the Pacers, but twenty five years is a long time.

922
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:04,759
Speaker 7: Enjoy the stick fans.

923
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 1: I'll tell you I no one believed me on the

924
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 1: show this week when I said, oh, they lose Game five.

925
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:13,000
Speaker 1: I said, I'm fine, we are gonna blow the doors

926
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 1: off of them in game six. It's gonna be different.

927
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:17,759
Speaker 1: It's gonna be officiated differently. The Knicks are gonna be

928
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 1: more physical. They're smelling blood. They kind of halfway went

929
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:22,719
Speaker 1: for it in game five, and they all thought you

930
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:25,439
Speaker 1: was crabbed. Oh you're just you're just trying to You're

931
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:27,200
Speaker 1: trying to show us you're not nervous. I'm like, no,

932
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:30,279
Speaker 1: we are gonna win big on Friday night, and there

933
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:31,080
Speaker 1: we go. It happened.

934
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:35,120
Speaker 4: Yeah. Look, I did not think I'd be sitting there

935
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:36,960
Speaker 4: in that building tonight and the Knicks would be leading

936
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:38,760
Speaker 4: by forty one points in the third quarter.

937
00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:43,880
Speaker 7: That I mean, that place for twenty four minutes of

938
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:45,879
Speaker 7: basketball and like an hour and a half of real

939
00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:49,080
Speaker 7: time was just a party. The only thing people got

940
00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 7: mad about is that Thibodeau wasn't taking the starter. Than

941
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:58,359
Speaker 7: that place was absolutely lit, guys, And look, I said,

942
00:43:58,400 --> 00:43:59,880
Speaker 7: as you know, twenty five years since they've been to

943
00:43:59,960 --> 00:44:02,960
Speaker 7: the conference finals, that might have been the best defense

944
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:05,319
Speaker 7: I've seen a Nick team play in twenty five years too.

945
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:10,400
Speaker 7: They shut the Celtics down the count bridges. He raced,

946
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:15,280
Speaker 7: Derek White, Jalen Brown sattled out in the third quarter.

947
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 7: It was utter domination in every facet of the game.

948
00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:23,799
Speaker 5: At what point did the did you think the Celtics quit?

949
00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:25,040
Speaker 2: When?

950
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 1: When did the spirit leave the body?

951
00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:36,000
Speaker 7: I think when Shireman made an appearance in the third quarter. Look,

952
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:38,719
Speaker 7: I think it was a point at the end of

953
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:41,919
Speaker 7: the second quarter where the Celtics I think in one

954
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:43,600
Speaker 7: three and it looked like they were about to make

955
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:45,960
Speaker 7: a run. And then the Knicks counted with like three

956
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:48,480
Speaker 7: straight baskets and they're up by thirty points at a halftime.

957
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:52,560
Speaker 7: The game wasn't over yet, but it was darn close.

958
00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 7: And then you know, Celtics made a couple of shots

959
00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:58,680
Speaker 7: to start the third Knicks bounced right back. They got

960
00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:01,719
Speaker 7: a fight, you know forty and then guys, that was it,

961
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:07,600
Speaker 7: you know it Badulla pold everyone and man, just what

962
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:12,680
Speaker 7: a game. And again it's I don't think fans understand

963
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:14,839
Speaker 7: how I mean they do, but if you'd the root

964
00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 7: for the next how bad the last twenty five years

965
00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:19,200
Speaker 7: have been, or at least twenty the last twenty five

966
00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:24,719
Speaker 7: years watching you know, Ron Baker and Kyle O'Quinn, who

967
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:26,880
Speaker 7: is probably one of the better guys you got to watch.

968
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:32,200
Speaker 4: I mean, my gosh, Alexi Sived who Nick fans were

969
00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:36,480
Speaker 4: in love with, Damian Boxon, my gosh, go through the list.

970
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:39,080
Speaker 4: It was bad, David.

971
00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:41,600
Speaker 7: Fizdale's regime, Larry Brown.

972
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:44,320
Speaker 4: Four year, my god is say it?

973
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:45,799
Speaker 7: Thomas it was.

974
00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:46,960
Speaker 4: It's as bad as.

975
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:51,760
Speaker 7: It was the lowest of the lows. And to finally

976
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 7: get to see this in that building for a night,

977
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:57,759
Speaker 7: it was a blast and it was so much fun.

978
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:01,000
Speaker 3: So as we look at the squad because Jason and

979
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:05,239
Speaker 3: I were really celebrating, and I did so maybe a

980
00:46:05,239 --> 00:46:08,359
Speaker 3: little muted because my guy's been at volume. You know,

981
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:10,320
Speaker 3: you turn into eleven on spinal tap.

982
00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:14,279
Speaker 1: He broke the knob off John I mean's just there's

983
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:16,520
Speaker 1: just no about it. But all of that, with the

984
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:19,880
Speaker 1: defense still up thirty, still challenging.

985
00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:21,960
Speaker 5: Plays, all of that is like, I like it.

986
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:25,399
Speaker 1: The I believe you actually said, you know, don't don't

987
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:27,200
Speaker 1: get off their necks, and they didn't.

988
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:30,520
Speaker 7: They didn't, they did not lay it off. And look,

989
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:35,600
Speaker 7: if this team can play like that defensively the rest

990
00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 7: of this postseason, they can win an NBA championship. If

991
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:42,719
Speaker 7: they can keep that level of intensity on defense. Hall

992
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:45,600
Speaker 7: Ansity Towns was locked in.

993
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:46,360
Speaker 4: Boys.

994
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:49,200
Speaker 7: You do not see that very often for a non defense.

995
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 7: That dude was locked in. If he can play like

996
00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:55,720
Speaker 7: that for two more rounds.

997
00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:57,319
Speaker 4: The Knicks can win a championship.

998
00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:02,680
Speaker 7: That's not hyperbolic, that's back. That's where we're at. This

999
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:05,560
Speaker 7: team has not played that way consistently this year. They've

1000
00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:09,439
Speaker 7: been maddeningly inconsistent. But if you can bring that type

1001
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:13,880
Speaker 7: of effort defensively, you the Knicks can be NBA champions

1002
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:15,799
Speaker 7: in the Year of Our Lord twenty twenty five.

1003
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:18,759
Speaker 1: The Knicks are here to save the playoffs, John, They're

1004
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 1: here to save the playoffs because we got Minnesota and

1005
00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:23,799
Speaker 1: maybe Oklahoma City and the Pacer. The Knicks are here

1006
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:24,840
Speaker 1: to save the playoffs.

1007
00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:31,120
Speaker 7: Wait wait, you're telling me Mike Silver doesn't want in Indiana, Minnesota, Indiana,

1008
00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:36,200
Speaker 7: Oklahoma City NBA Finals. But you said not have any

1009
00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:39,239
Speaker 7: luck on this planet since the u A Lottery, they

1010
00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:41,279
Speaker 7: have that zero luck. They've gotten no help.

1011
00:47:41,520 --> 00:47:44,600
Speaker 4: It's time to start pulling some strengths. Baby, you're gonna

1012
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:46,240
Speaker 4: get the big market into the finals.

1013
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:50,279
Speaker 1: Adam Silver, what well, Hey, that's it we's been. But

1014
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:53,800
Speaker 1: look at where we're at. John Listen, It's already gonna

1015
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:55,880
Speaker 1: be a Knicks Final four. It's gonna be like a

1016
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 1: Wholemark Christmas movie because it's the Knicks and the Pacers

1017
00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:02,080
Speaker 1: who are synonymus with the Knicks in the playoffs, Randall

1018
00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:06,720
Speaker 1: and de Vincenzo and probably Hartnerstein. It's an entirely Knicks

1019
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:09,160
Speaker 1: final four. It's everything we need right now.

1020
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:13,480
Speaker 7: Look, this goes back to the nineties and Nick Pacers,

1021
00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:17,320
Speaker 7: where they've kind of went back and forth, like neither

1022
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:20,160
Speaker 7: team dominated in the nineties. One year the Pacers would win,

1023
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:22,919
Speaker 7: then the Knicks would win. Well, guess what, boys.

1024
00:48:23,719 --> 00:48:27,520
Speaker 4: Payback's a bitch, hare Cult's Nick the lots of the

1025
00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:29,799
Speaker 4: faces last year, Kyrie.

1026
00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:33,560
Speaker 7: Halliburn, look He's a really good player, but he is

1027
00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:39,440
Speaker 7: such a perfect like sequel to Reggie Miller. He's lanky,

1028
00:48:39,719 --> 00:48:45,600
Speaker 7: he's skinny, he fires threes, he's annoying, he flomps heavy.

1029
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:47,160
Speaker 4: He's like Reggy Miller.

1030
00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:51,439
Speaker 7: Not as good, but reincarnated. This could not be. It's

1031
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:54,520
Speaker 7: just it's the nineties all over again, and it's gonna

1032
00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:57,399
Speaker 7: be so much fun. But you're right, Look whoever gets

1033
00:48:57,400 --> 00:48:58,879
Speaker 7: out of the West that if you're a Nick fan,

1034
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:02,839
Speaker 7: I would root for the Denver Nuggets. I want no part,

1035
00:49:03,239 --> 00:49:06,160
Speaker 7: no part of the Oklahoma City Thunder. So if I'm

1036
00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:08,640
Speaker 7: a Knicks fan, I root for Denver. Maybe you guys disagree,

1037
00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:11,600
Speaker 7: but look, that was a hell of an effort.

1038
00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:14,080
Speaker 4: And guys, I can't believe I'm saying that the.

1039
00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:16,080
Speaker 7: Knicks have a real chance to win an NBA title

1040
00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:18,480
Speaker 7: this year. I can't believe I'm saying it on the

1041
00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:21,759
Speaker 7: radio to millions of people. But them's are the facts, boys.

1042
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:24,320
Speaker 1: And you know I love that. Well, all Knicks, like

1043
00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:26,800
Speaker 1: you and I. We're all celebrating like we won the title.

1044
00:49:27,239 --> 00:49:30,480
Speaker 1: They're climbing lightholes, we're all talking about who the Knicks

1045
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:32,839
Speaker 1: are going to play in the finals, and it's like

1046
00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:35,040
Speaker 1: they've been to there. We gotten out of two rounds

1047
00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:37,000
Speaker 1: of the playoffs that but it's like we won the

1048
00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:37,920
Speaker 1: whole thing tonight.

1049
00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:42,560
Speaker 7: Hey, look like I said, that's when the first question, boys,

1050
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:45,160
Speaker 7: you ask me, and what I say, there's still work

1051
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:47,600
Speaker 7: to do. You did not put this team together to

1052
00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:50,040
Speaker 7: win two rounds in the playoffs. You put the teams

1053
00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:54,839
Speaker 7: together to win an NBA championship. But there's a realistic

1054
00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:57,520
Speaker 7: window here. You know, the Knicks finish of the day

1055
00:49:57,520 --> 00:50:00,360
Speaker 7: at home and they have a homeportant Fanta in the

1056
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:04,680
Speaker 7: Eastern Conference title compute for a second boy, all right,

1057
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:07,800
Speaker 7: and by the way, if the Timberwls go to the finals,

1058
00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:10,239
Speaker 7: you know who's gonna have the home court advantage in

1059
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:11,359
Speaker 7: the NBA Finals two.

1060
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:16,320
Speaker 4: You're New York next. So this is real.

1061
00:50:16,719 --> 00:50:19,560
Speaker 7: There's work to do. They have to keep playing well,

1062
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:23,919
Speaker 7: but there is enjoy the series win. Plenty of work

1063
00:50:23,960 --> 00:50:27,240
Speaker 7: to do. But this is real. You know, I'm always

1064
00:50:27,239 --> 00:50:30,040
Speaker 7: on the poor cold water on stuff. I'm very realistic.

1065
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:33,520
Speaker 7: I've seen too much. You guys have seen too much

1066
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:34,840
Speaker 7: as Nick fans.

1067
00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:36,520
Speaker 4: It always goes wrong.

1068
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:39,359
Speaker 7: They have a real shot here, that is real.

1069
00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:43,040
Speaker 3: I gotta ask the obvious question. First you John dn Smith,

1070
00:50:43,080 --> 00:50:45,680
Speaker 3: You'll just punch me, is uh? You know, after the

1071
00:50:45,680 --> 00:50:48,680
Speaker 3: euphoria wears off and you punch yourself out and you

1072
00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:51,320
Speaker 3: go to sleep. How soon did the nightmares of Reggie

1073
00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 3: Miller come back?

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Speaker 4: You think we're gonna sleep, Well, eventually you're.

1075
00:50:56,480 --> 00:50:59,279
Speaker 3: Gonna pass on. I'm not saying it's a it's a natural. Hey,

1076
00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:03,240
Speaker 3: I'm going to be thing. Eventually, he's just gonna collapse somewhere.

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00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:07,040
Speaker 7: Hey, look, Cheery. Here's the thing about Reggie Miller. Reggie

1078
00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:10,200
Speaker 7: Miller had some really awesome moments against the Knicks. The

1079
00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:13,640
Speaker 7: Knicks also had some really awesome moments against Reggie Miller.

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00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:14,920
Speaker 7: They knocked him out of the.

1081
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:16,360
Speaker 4: Playoffs more than once.

1082
00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:16,880
Speaker 8: In the nineties.

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00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:19,560
Speaker 7: So yes, Reggie got the Knicks a couple of times,

1084
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:22,480
Speaker 7: and a couple of times in heartbreaking fashion. But you

1085
00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:24,320
Speaker 7: know the Nicks beat to go to the NBA finals.

1086
00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:30,000
Speaker 7: Four Pacers boys. So yeah, Reggie Miller. You hate him,

1087
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:31,200
Speaker 7: he's he's the worst.

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00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:34,920
Speaker 4: But Nick seat him, and now it's coming to beat

1089
00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:36,200
Speaker 4: Tyler Barton too.

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Speaker 1: NIX insider John Schmilkey, he's on Twitter at sch milk.

1091
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:44,719
Speaker 1: You can find him there are at the top of

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00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:47,160
Speaker 1: any kind of light pole somewhere in the New Jersey

1093
00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:51,200
Speaker 1: metropolitan area. After the win tonight, John, thanks a bunch, buddy.

1094
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:52,839
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you during the East Finals.

1095
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:55,160
Speaker 7: All right, I'm gonna land in New Jersey.

1096
00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:56,280
Speaker 1: I'll talk guys.

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00:51:57,360 --> 00:52:01,120
Speaker 7: Nick the conference.

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00:52:00,719 --> 00:52:07,000
Speaker 1: Titles, let's go it, Nix Insider, like Nix Insider, Let's

1099
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:09,160
Speaker 1: go I mean, I mean, it was great.

1100
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:10,440
Speaker 5: And now it's in between the.

1101
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:16,640
Speaker 1: Going to sleep when the knickser hoists and hilario'brien trophy.

1102
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:21,719
Speaker 1: Now I realize this is a little bit of hyperbole. Okay,

1103
00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:25,320
Speaker 1: it's a little bit of hyperbole because but going into

1104
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:27,239
Speaker 1: this city, you know, thinking about this the last col

1105
00:52:27,280 --> 00:52:28,840
Speaker 1: and I was thinking, honestly, I was thinking about this

1106
00:52:28,920 --> 00:52:31,360
Speaker 1: coming into work tonight as as I'm listening and the

1107
00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:34,040
Speaker 1: Knicks are just pouring it on the Celtics and I'm beeping,

1108
00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:36,359
Speaker 1: laying on my horn, I'm banging my horn and I'm

1109
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:40,400
Speaker 1: screaming in my car up until tonight.

1110
00:52:40,560 --> 00:52:43,680
Speaker 5: Did you cause that accident that deleted me at your

1111
00:52:43,719 --> 00:52:44,600
Speaker 5: twenty cars?

1112
00:52:44,640 --> 00:52:49,319
Speaker 1: You know, I did not thinking about this right in

1113
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:54,279
Speaker 1: my lifetime. Okay, Patrick Ewing has been the greatest Nick.

1114
00:52:54,719 --> 00:52:58,120
Speaker 1: All Right, Hall of famer, got the Knicks to two finals,

1115
00:52:58,200 --> 00:53:00,759
Speaker 1: multiple All Stars, Right, yeah, you know, failed a little bit.

1116
00:53:01,080 --> 00:53:03,520
Speaker 1: I keep thinking of showing that miss in the Eastern

1117
00:53:03,560 --> 00:53:05,920
Speaker 1: Conference Finals in ninety five when he just finger rolled

1118
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:07,919
Speaker 1: it out well fer rolls, I mean dunked the ball.

1119
00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:11,919
Speaker 1: But after Kewing, Patrick Ewing generally has been viewed as

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00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:15,480
Speaker 1: the greatest Nick. I mean Sanitysanity had those couple of

1121
00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:17,319
Speaker 1: weeks he had. He had a few weeks that was good.

1122
00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:19,160
Speaker 1: He didn't make it his number two. He didn't even

1123
00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:21,440
Speaker 1: make it to the end of the season. I realized

1124
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:25,359
Speaker 1: this is now the first time that Brunson has even

1125
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:27,880
Speaker 1: gotten the Knicks as far as the Eastern Conference finals.

1126
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:31,520
Speaker 1: But you know, thinking back, you know, hey, Ewing brought

1127
00:53:31,520 --> 00:53:33,560
Speaker 1: the Knicks out of absolute obscurity.

1128
00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:37,239
Speaker 5: They were terrible for so long. Bent up envelope showed up.

1129
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:40,399
Speaker 1: It wasn't bent. It was cold. Okay, just it wasn't bent.

1130
00:53:40,560 --> 00:53:44,200
Speaker 1: It wasn't the envelope cold. It was cold. It was cold.

1131
00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:48,360
Speaker 1: It was really really cold. I can't touch this, but uh,

1132
00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:51,880
Speaker 1: quite honestly, now, if US Knicks fans who's the greatest

1133
00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:54,320
Speaker 1: Nick of all time, they'll all tell you. Jalen Brunson

1134
00:53:54,480 --> 00:53:56,560
Speaker 1: a little bit prisoner of the moment, but also a

1135
00:53:56,560 --> 00:53:59,600
Speaker 1: little bit of the Knicks and bringing the big Knicks

1136
00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:02,200
Speaker 1: back from obscurity over the last years when they had

1137
00:54:02,200 --> 00:54:04,000
Speaker 1: all kinds of stars come in to try to do

1138
00:54:04,040 --> 00:54:05,640
Speaker 1: it right that all kinds of stars come in. Look,

1139
00:54:05,640 --> 00:54:07,680
Speaker 1: can we do it? Can we make it? And Jalen

1140
00:54:07,719 --> 00:54:10,680
Speaker 1: Brunson has done this. He's taken less money. He is.

1141
00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:14,560
Speaker 1: He is more beloved in it as a by Knicks

1142
00:54:14,560 --> 00:54:17,560
Speaker 1: fans than Ewing ever was. Ewing was great, but it

1143
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:19,640
Speaker 1: was ah, we fell short in the finals here, we

1144
00:54:19,640 --> 00:54:21,560
Speaker 1: fell short in the finals here, and really the one

1145
00:54:21,600 --> 00:54:23,840
Speaker 1: finals we could have won twenty five years ago. He

1146
00:54:23,920 --> 00:54:26,040
Speaker 1: tears his achilles when we could have beaten the Spurs,

1147
00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:28,320
Speaker 1: but that you know, it wasn't his fault. But Brunson

1148
00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:31,360
Speaker 1: has been able to persevere and lead the team past

1149
00:54:32,120 --> 00:54:34,680
Speaker 1: where anybody thought they could. You has to. He is

1150
00:54:34,800 --> 00:54:36,560
Speaker 1: he is the He is the greatest Nick of all

1151
00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:37,760
Speaker 1: time right now. He's the greatest.

1152
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:39,600
Speaker 5: But there's a couple of things that also go into it.

1153
00:54:39,640 --> 00:54:42,880
Speaker 3: I mean, Ewing was notoriously not a guy that did

1154
00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:45,920
Speaker 3: a whole lot of interviews, and other than the quote

1155
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:48,640
Speaker 3: of we make a lot of money, and we spend

1156
00:54:48,719 --> 00:54:51,160
Speaker 3: a lot of money when when we were talking about

1157
00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:54,080
Speaker 3: work stoppages, he was a guy that didn't really have

1158
00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:56,959
Speaker 3: the best relationship. He's also a guy that the weight

1159
00:54:57,000 --> 00:55:00,000
Speaker 3: of the world and expectations were there frozen envelope theory.

1160
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:04,359
Speaker 3: He's aside decorated career at Georgetown that we watched every

1161
00:55:04,400 --> 00:55:07,200
Speaker 3: minute of. Right, that was when college basketball was one

1162
00:55:07,239 --> 00:55:10,080
Speaker 3: of the rulers of our sporting world. And you watch

1163
00:55:10,160 --> 00:55:12,360
Speaker 3: these guys, you got to know them, whether you liked

1164
00:55:12,400 --> 00:55:14,360
Speaker 3: them or not. Between he Alonso Morning to ken Ba

1165
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:17,600
Speaker 3: mctombo and John Thompson like they were and then you

1166
00:55:17,680 --> 00:55:20,120
Speaker 3: had Alan Iverson, I mean, you just had this squad

1167
00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:22,840
Speaker 3: that we paid attention to. On a whole other level,

1168
00:55:23,040 --> 00:55:25,719
Speaker 3: Jalen Brunson was the guy that was the also ran

1169
00:55:25,960 --> 00:55:32,520
Speaker 3: when Lucas showed up in Dallas. He's short, with you

1170
00:55:32,560 --> 00:55:35,640
Speaker 3: know the big back porch, right, He's not the quick guy,

1171
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:40,560
Speaker 3: he's not lanky, he's not the prototypical star of the NBA. Oh,

1172
00:55:40,600 --> 00:55:43,360
Speaker 3: and he's a colossal smart ass at the microphone. So

1173
00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:47,520
Speaker 3: he's very embraceable and he's got that workmanlike thing that wins.

1174
00:55:47,560 --> 00:55:51,399
Speaker 3: He's not some feet right like that that usually disqualified center.

1175
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Speaker 1: What we talk greatest of all time? What do we do?

1176
00:55:53,160 --> 00:55:55,440
Speaker 1: We don't talk about Korean and Wilt. They get just

1177
00:55:55,440 --> 00:55:56,640
Speaker 1: put off in their own corner.

1178
00:55:56,680 --> 00:55:58,759
Speaker 3: And you know it's like, ah, whatever, they were seven

1179
00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:00,600
Speaker 3: feet tall, Like, let's talk about these guys.

1180
00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:02,799
Speaker 1: Jalen Brunce is that guy at a whole other level

1181
00:56:02,920 --> 00:56:05,879
Speaker 1: telling you Brunson is now the greatest nick of all time?

1182
00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:08,880
Speaker 1: Any nick fane, that's really sad. I know it's sad.

1183
00:56:08,719 --> 00:56:13,160
Speaker 1: You even talking about Carmellow and it's okay's better than Carmelo. Jalen.

1184
00:56:13,480 --> 00:56:14,239
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just.

1185
00:56:14,200 --> 00:56:16,880
Speaker 5: Saying you you just went right past. We got to insane.

1186
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:20,680
Speaker 5: Any reference. He's alive. That game you can be there, Jileheim,

1187
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:22,480
Speaker 5: the only title Mellow.

1188
00:56:22,160 --> 00:56:24,600
Speaker 1: Can be there. That's fine. Jalen Brunson's greatest. It's a

1189
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:27,960
Speaker 1: metal stand. I mean, actually is Mellow fourth? This is

1190
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:31,680
Speaker 1: the fourth man? Probably maybe fourth? Yeah, probably because it's

1191
00:56:31,719 --> 00:56:34,279
Speaker 1: a really sad Mount Rushmore. But hell, I'm telling you

1192
00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:36,359
Speaker 1: get you there. Brunson is now the greatest nick ever.

1193
00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:39,360
Speaker 1: And it's crazy and it's a little sad, but it's true.