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Speaker 1: Just when I was starting to believe I'd pick Saint

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Speaker 1: John's to go to the Final four, it's only one loss.

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Speaker 3: It's one loss.

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Speaker 1: We got big NBA games coming down to the wire now,

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Speaker 1: we'll have more on that coming up in a couple

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Speaker 1: of minutes. However, you know we're getting close to the

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Speaker 1: NSA Tournament. I really do believe we're going to see

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Speaker 1: a great march we have a lot of really good teams,

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Speaker 1: but tonight something I have never seen this and in

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Speaker 1: college basketball, no, no, no, I've seen that. I've seen

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Speaker 1: about just as many Syracuse wins as I see losses.

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Speaker 1: Come on, man, we're five hundred team.

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Speaker 3: Well, once upon a time back with dinosaurs roam the.

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Speaker 1: Earth, this is tonight what we watched between number six

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Speaker 1: Yukon and number fifteen Saint John's. Maybe you saw the

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Speaker 1: final score and you thought, oh, well, hey, hey, Yukon

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Speaker 1: really threw the hammer down. Yeah, seventy two to forty,

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Speaker 1: Yukon beat Saint John's. Now the first thing you would

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Speaker 1: say is Saint John's was not a shot very well,

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Speaker 1: you would be correct.

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Speaker 3: And if you haven't been paying attention to college basketball

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Speaker 3: as many people still coming out of their their comato

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Speaker 3: state in the post NFL world, where you get have

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Speaker 3: that little bit of depression and acceptance right the five

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Speaker 3: stages of grief. Maybe you got sucked into the Olympics

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Speaker 3: for the last two and a half weeks, so you

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Speaker 3: pushed off your college basketball viewing. You thought yourself, man,

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Speaker 3: that's Saint John's team. They must really stink.

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Speaker 1: They had won thirteen in a row, well, how many

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Speaker 1: going into tonight, thirteen in a row.

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Speaker 3: But now this loss counts for thirteen. It only counts

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Speaker 3: as one. Right, Not only did they.

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Speaker 1: Lose, okay, so they lost seventy two to forty. Why

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Speaker 1: this is such a big deal because sometimes things happen

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Speaker 1: that you say, there's no way mathematically this happened, but

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Speaker 1: it did. Saint John's in this game was held without

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Speaker 1: a field goal for the final seventeen and a half

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Speaker 1: minutes of the second half, their last bucket seventeen and

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Speaker 1: a half minutes to go in the second half. They

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Speaker 1: did not score again from the floor the rest of

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Speaker 1: the game. Not one, not one, oh, by the way, bucket,

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Speaker 1: Not one Yukon player falling down, Not when all the

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Speaker 1: walk Ons in the four where Yukon legends are in

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Speaker 1: the game at the end, Oh look, Okaffer's in the game.

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Speaker 1: That's awesome. Hey look hey, hey, hey, hey, hashimit. The

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Speaker 1: beat is in the game. That's great that I'm coming back.

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Speaker 1: But not even at the end where hey, you know

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Speaker 1: what we you know we get about No, no Yukon

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Speaker 1: playing hillatious defense the entire way. They couldn't even buy

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Speaker 3: Do you want them all to have polygraph tests?

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 3: Were you really trying to make a basket? Did you

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Speaker 3: just try to miss? After a while that it was,

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Speaker 3: it was foddered for the next practice that someone would

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Speaker 3: have to run sprints if they actually made a shot,

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Speaker 3: because this is next level stuff, and you know, the

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Speaker 3: running joke being, hey, let's go to what the odds said,

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Speaker 3: because on paper they match up well, right, thirteen game

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Speaker 3: win streak, they're rolling on Damn Hurley, he's mad at

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Speaker 3: the world. Yeah, he's just this side of McK cronin

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Speaker 3: half the time. Oh yeah, yeah, Yukon was a five

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Speaker 1: They had a layup to make it a fourteen point

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Speaker 3: From the floor, they only missed four free throws.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, honestly, if I'm how much you

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Speaker 1: want to bet Danny hurleyes in the locker room going guys, hey,

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Speaker 1: Avery's class. Hey, oh of you shut up? The hell

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Speaker 1: do we put them on the free throw line? They

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Speaker 1: couldn't make a shot. How the hell do you make

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Speaker 1: have Noah Emeric blow the whistle like it's miracle. Coach,

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Speaker 3: Blow that.

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Speaker 1: We're not gonna work during the game. We're gonna work

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Speaker 1: after the game again. Coach again, give me the keys.

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Speaker 1: I'll turn the lights off God again again. No, anytime

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Speaker 1: we could get Noah Emeric into the show. We've done

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Speaker 1: a good job. And you did that six minutes in

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Speaker 1: points in the paint for twelve. This is just an

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Speaker 1: absolutely are we still talking about this? I mean, this

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Speaker 1: is hey, it's comedy Frostburg. This is like, this is

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Speaker 1: like watching the Lakers. Like in the fourth quarter last

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Speaker 1: night against the Magic Oh too soon.

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Speaker 4: Everything was great about the fourth quarter, except.

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Speaker 3: For most of it until the final sequence being a

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Speaker 3: baby spider Man meme. Yes, what did I tell you,

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Speaker 3: Spider Man, it's made the right play, Spider Man. Lebron,

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Speaker 4: Should have taken the last shot, Lebron. How how that

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Speaker 4: would have gone brick?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean, look we look that that's a

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Speaker 3: huge deal.

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Speaker 1: We had a lot of big NBA stuff tonight, like

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Speaker 1: we have so many great so much great stuff tonight

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Speaker 1: in the NBA again, we got the Spurs coming down

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Speaker 1: to it against Toronto. We have the Pistons who have

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Speaker 1: just defeated the Oklahoma City Thunder. This is a couple

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Speaker 1: of nights after getting absolutely demolished by the Spurs in

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Speaker 1: a night where the Spurs really had a b ish

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Speaker 1: type game. Uh. Look, this is a situation now to

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Speaker 1: get away from Saint John's and I mean really that's

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Speaker 1: just it's you don't score for seventeen and a half minutes, man,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's impressive, even even me shooting threes in

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna I'm a couple. You're gonna get a lot

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Speaker 3: of shouting, good man, a lot of shots.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 3: I mean it's also the way to get your cardio

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Speaker 3: really start concentrating a bit more because you're realizing how

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Speaker 3: many miles you're now running.

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Speaker 4: Jason, what are we talking like a seven foot rim?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 1: No, no, eight eight foot rim? Eight foot They don't,

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Speaker 1: they don't. They don't go down to seven feet. They

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Speaker 1: don't it. Maybe one I tried. They said no, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna put it an eight feet. I'm like, all right,

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Speaker 1: that's great. I commit At eight feet, I could just

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Speaker 3: See. I thought you're gonna say you were gonna ask

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Speaker 3: them to lower it to the same level to where

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Speaker 3: it's like a Papa shot if you were going to

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Speaker 3: David Busters or something, because then you can get your

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Speaker 1: Yeah. But in the NBA, and we got a big

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Speaker 1: NBA story coming up in a few minutes. But in

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Speaker 1: the NBA tonight, the top three teams in the NBA

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: We're watching the Spurs again not trying to hold on

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Speaker 1: the Pistons just finished off the Oklahoma City Thunder watching

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Speaker 1: them win tonight over Oklahoma City. Oklahoma City still has issues, obviously,

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Speaker 1: Look they have injury issues and no SGA, and I

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Speaker 3: But as you like to say all.

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Speaker 1: The time, the show is tonight, and the show has

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Speaker 1: And of these teams, there is no way that you

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Speaker 1: can watch them play and not say the best team

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Speaker 1: in the NBA are the San Antonio Spurs. We're back

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Speaker 1: to the to the to the We're going back right

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Speaker 1: retro is here. We're back to the aughts where every

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Speaker 1: other year the Spurs would go to the NBA Finals

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Speaker 1: and they would win. The Spurs are the number one

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Speaker 1: Spurs clearly over the over the front, over the Pistons.

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Speaker 1: After Stephan Castle just had Kate Cunningham and a blender

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Speaker 1: a big night. He scores twenty nine. But man, you

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Speaker 1: watch these teams play and you go, yeah, the Spurs

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Speaker 3: Well, the big thing out of this one three point

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Speaker 3: win now final one ten one oh seven over the

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Speaker 3: that the head of the Snake is and still victor women. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: but tonight thirty what thirty one minutes played? He went

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Speaker 3: it out off a miss to send it back up

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Speaker 3: six from three point range. He did have five block shots,

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Speaker 3: but all in not your dominant stat line. Like we've

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Speaker 3: been watching time in time out here, you got great balance,

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Speaker 3: of ways against the best competition in the game. That's

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Speaker 3: been the fun thing. Also is the schedule makers, as

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Speaker 3: much as we may bemoan different lulls in a team

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Speaker 3: they get to play the dregs. Wait, someone's got to

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Speaker 3: win that game. Ah. No, The tanking goes on hiatus,

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Speaker 3: but like here you're you're seeing this like almost like

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Speaker 3: a round robin tournament of best on best. Right now

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Speaker 3: you talk about that Detroit and ok see, even without SGA,

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Speaker 3: you're still talking about two of the top teams in

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Speaker 3: schedule to where we can celebrate the best and push

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Speaker 3: away the tanking talk at least for a moment, at

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Speaker 3: least for ten minutes. Well for ten well just wait,

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Speaker 3: it's like Midwest weather change Wenby and.

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Speaker 1: Steph Castle tonight seven for twenty seven from the floor,

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Speaker 1: and it didn't matter because they got more than enough

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Speaker 1: offense from Fox and Vassell. And as we talked about

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Speaker 1: Harper coming up, look the guy can barely play, you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, it's been an embarrassment of riches

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Speaker 1: But that's the best part about the Spurs becoming the

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Speaker 3: The absolute right time.

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Speaker 1: We started out great, we got out to our you know,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I hate the old blueprint, but we certainly watched

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Speaker 3: How about a Fresca exit?

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Speaker 1: Hey, I brought him in for us to open. Like, oh,

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Speaker 1: Hey, Xavier Gibson, Hey, I got Sauce Gardener when he

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Speaker 3: I'm ten years old. Will you let me keep the Jets?

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Speaker 3: Get all the Jets? You gotta keep all the Jets.

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Speaker 3: I got all the Jets, even though half of those

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Speaker 1: Oh man, these are all These are the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: I think anytime you open a pack with Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 3: that includes a lot of the legends. I gotta throw

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Speaker 3: and it's like there's a Billy Sims insert card. Can

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Speaker 3: I have all the Juts? You can have all the

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Speaker 3: the Mets? Car? We'll have some baseball on Monday as well,

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Speaker 3: I almost bought you a stack of pee Alonzo's today.

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Speaker 3: Was already to plus five point fifty. He was in

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Speaker 3: double digits last week. You look at wem ben Yama

435
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Speaker 3: now eighteen to one. He was forty to one a

436
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Speaker 3: couple of weeks ago. Donchez at forty to one has

437
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Speaker 3: been pretty steady. But Jalen Brown was sixty to one

438
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Speaker 3: when we talked about these very things and started the

439
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Speaker 3: train and the momentum of should Jalen Brown get more consideration?

440
00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:05,520
Speaker 3: He was sixty to one. A lot of money's starting

441
00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:08,200
Speaker 3: to flow because you're seeing these guys start to slough off.

442
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Speaker 3: We talked with with Mark Stein a little bit yesterday.

443
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Speaker 3: I mean, there's four or five guys that are gonna

444
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Speaker 3: drop in the next week. Oh sure, right, it's one

445
00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:20,000
Speaker 3: or two games, and then if you've got your playoff

446
00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:23,480
Speaker 3: spot secured, is the guy gonna argue that he needs

447
00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:26,240
Speaker 3: to play that game? I would say, if he's still

448
00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:29,159
Speaker 3: one of the favorites. Tampp, you're probably saying I at

449
00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:31,879
Speaker 3: least need to start. But hey, what are chet Holmgrenzod's

450
00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:33,680
Speaker 3: looking at right now? He's played in all the games.

451
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Speaker 3: But it's like Robinson and Shaquille all those years ago

452
00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:38,159
Speaker 3: for the scoring title.

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Speaker 2: What did he do?

454
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Speaker 7: All?

455
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Speaker 5: Right?

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Speaker 1: I got but this illustrates a bigger point. And I

457
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Speaker 1: don't you know, I can just say one sentence to

458
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Speaker 1: get my point across and then and then we can

459
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Speaker 1: back it up because this show, this story here shows

460
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Speaker 1: you why Adam Silver is the worst commissioner in sports,

461
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Speaker 1: in pro sports. He is the absolute worst. And I've

462
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Speaker 1: talked about him for a long time. He does want

463
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Speaker 1: to do anything. And this is what happens. When you

464
00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:04,040
Speaker 1: don't want to do anything, you wind up. You wind

465
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Speaker 1: up in these situations. The NBA is in, here's here's

466
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Speaker 1: a case where hey, we're gonna put something out there

467
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Speaker 1: to make people want to play enough games to be

468
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Speaker 1: the MVP, and players like, yeah, no, no, we don't care,

469
00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:17,320
Speaker 1: we don't care. Adam Silver is the worst commissioner. And

470
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Speaker 1: all I got to say is this because no other

471
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Speaker 1: big time sport has as many problems as the NBA.

472
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Speaker 1: College football, which has no rules, doesn't have the problems

473
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Speaker 1: of the NBA. The WNBA, which can't get things right

474
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Speaker 1: even though they are in a period of incredible success,

475
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Speaker 1: doesn't have the problems that the NBA has. Since Adam

476
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Speaker 1: Silver has come into power, it's been now it's tanking

477
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Speaker 1: is out in the open, it's getting players interested in

478
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Speaker 1: the regular season. They don't care about playing. It's back

479
00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:49,040
Speaker 1: to back regular season games of the regular season where

480
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Speaker 1: stars regularly sit out. Now right, it's it's smaller problems

481
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Speaker 1: like how do you fix the NBA All Star Game?

482
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Speaker 1: No sport has as many problems as the NBA does,

483
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Speaker 1: and the reason is because the players, none of them

484
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Speaker 1: respect Adam Silver. Even the owners don't respect Adam Silver. Right,

485
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Speaker 1: you had metashed to be it today, say hey, I

486
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Speaker 1: want to get the dunk contest going to give a

487
00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:10,080
Speaker 1: million dollars to the winner next year? Well that's not

488
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Speaker 1: really something they did, but what owner like would somebody

489
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Speaker 1: do that in the NFL? Hey, I'm gonna fix the

490
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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl by doing this? Don't Roger Dell would say,

491
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Speaker 1: you don't say stuff like that, right you would? Even

492
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Speaker 1: Rob Manford would say, hey, you don't say stuff like that.

493
00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:22,280
Speaker 1: Steve Cohen, you don't.

494
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Speaker 3: Do X, Y and Z.

495
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Speaker 1: But here's everybody that feels like I can say and

496
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Speaker 1: do whatever I want to because Adam Silver doesn't do anything,

497
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Speaker 1: and the players and the owners do not respect him.

498
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Speaker 1: They do not respect him. He comes out with, Hey,

499
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Speaker 1: tanking is a big issue. I'm gonna find teams for

500
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Speaker 1: tanking and there's gonna be rules and what have All

501
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Speaker 1: the teams responded with, yeah, shrugging shoulders, I'm finding the

502
00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:45,040
Speaker 1: pacers one hundred thousand dollars for not playing their guys

503
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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter of a game. What have been

504
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Speaker 1: the next two things with the Pacers? The next game

505
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Speaker 1: they played, they sat all their guys and Rick Carlisle said,

506
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Speaker 1: why are.

507
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Speaker 3: We getting fined? No one looked at our our doctors

508
00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:56,480
Speaker 3: reports on our players. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

509
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Speaker 1: This should have been something where I'm finding you were

510
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Speaker 1: not tanking that if you respected the commissioner that your

511
00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:04,600
Speaker 1: team was Okay, Hey, wait a minute, we really screwed

512
00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:06,040
Speaker 1: that up. We got the spotlight on this. We want

513
00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:07,360
Speaker 1: to make sure we're doing it right. All our guys

514
00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:10,080
Speaker 1: are gonna play. No next game, everybody was missing, all

515
00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:12,680
Speaker 1: the guys were out. They don't care. Hey, sixty five

516
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Speaker 1: games be the MVP. We know how much you players

517
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Speaker 1: care about the MVP. Yeah no, don't care.

518
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Speaker 3: But what do you make you wanted to? But do

519
00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:19,720
Speaker 3: you want him in these awards?

520
00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:19,960
Speaker 4: Yeah?

521
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:21,280
Speaker 3: No, don't care that much. Whoa.

522
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Speaker 1: They do not respect him. Of course, they love him

523
00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:26,480
Speaker 1: because they can do whatever they want to. The players

524
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Speaker 1: at a point where the regular season, we've made it irrelevant.

525
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Speaker 1: We don't care about playing, we don't care about award.

526
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Speaker 3: We're doing whatever we want. We're sitting out GA. We

527
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Speaker 3: don't need to play seventy five games a year. We

528
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Speaker 3: get everything we want.

529
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Speaker 1: Of course they love him. He does nothing. He is

530
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Speaker 1: the worst commissioner in sports. I know, not that it

531
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Speaker 1: was David Stern was the panacea for everything. But if

532
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Speaker 1: David Stern was still running the NBA, he'd have solved

533
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Speaker 1: this tanking thing really fast. He would not have let

534
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Speaker 1: this become a problem. He would not have let the

535
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Speaker 1: NBA also game become a problem. You not let the

536
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Speaker 1: regular season be the valued. He would have come up

537
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Speaker 1: with answers. But Adam Silver can't. He can't come up

538
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Speaker 1: with it. Look at the problems the NBA, all the

539
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:03,159
Speaker 1: other sports, all the other committied. Even Gary Bettman's a

540
00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:05,640
Speaker 1: better commissioner, can cheer and I didn't think anybody can

541
00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:08,000
Speaker 1: wind up getting ahead of Gary Bettman and commissioner. But

542
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,720
Speaker 1: that's just like a Pavlovian thing. Though you hear his name,

543
00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:13,160
Speaker 1: let's mooo the commissioner. Now it's Adam Silver. He wants

544
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Speaker 1: to do nothing. That He's never he's never taken a

545
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Speaker 1: strong stand on things. The players walk over him, they

546
00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:20,920
Speaker 1: don't respect him, The owners don't respect him. They say

547
00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:22,919
Speaker 1: what they want, they do what they want. It's it's

548
00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,080
Speaker 1: the they're the kids who when the parent has the

549
00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:28,119
Speaker 1: toothless uh uh. If you if you don't do well

550
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Speaker 1: on your test, you're not going out Friday.

551
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I failed that.

552
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Speaker 1: I'm taking the car. I'll see you later on all right,

553
00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:35,040
Speaker 1: Well next time, next time, you're not getting the car. Yeah, dad,

554
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Speaker 1: I'll see I'll see you on Sunday when I come back.

555
00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:39,040
Speaker 3: But that's just it, right, whether it's in house and

556
00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:43,560
Speaker 3: you know, look in the mirror at your respective situations there,

557
00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:46,680
Speaker 3: think about your workplaces. Right, As long as the line

558
00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:48,840
Speaker 3: keeps moving, it could be miserable.

559
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Speaker 6: Right.

560
00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:53,119
Speaker 3: You can have a lot of holes, but someone picks

561
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Speaker 3: up the slack and keeps it moving, so it looks

562
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Speaker 3: just fine. Right. We talked about the duck analogy. Right

563
00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:03,080
Speaker 3: on the sur everything's great, but those feet, man, they're

564
00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:07,000
Speaker 3: working underneath. Man, they are grinding to keep in moving

565
00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:09,560
Speaker 3: and keep them afloat. And that's the same thing here

566
00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:13,240
Speaker 3: with the NBA. So long as everybody's printing money, you

567
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:15,639
Speaker 3: can kick the can down the road. Nothing to see here,

568
00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:19,000
Speaker 3: just keep the curtain up and everything could be rotting

569
00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:21,440
Speaker 3: behind it. As long as you've got something to mask

570
00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:25,320
Speaker 3: the smell and everybody's still getting fat, that's fine, And

571
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:29,560
Speaker 3: you can keep listing. You got betting scandals, You've got

572
00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:34,119
Speaker 3: uneasy relationships with all of the betting partners. Calshie now

573
00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:38,320
Speaker 3: popping up. Hi, Honest, you've got all of these things

574
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:42,320
Speaker 3: that are swirling. But what do you have? A clamoring

575
00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:45,359
Speaker 3: for live events which means the money keeps flowing in,

576
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:49,040
Speaker 3: which for Adam Silver, as long as everybody's getting paid,

577
00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:53,160
Speaker 3: it's not. It's a lot of surface issues as opposed

578
00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:58,520
Speaker 3: to something pending a full earthquake of your actual league.

579
00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:00,760
Speaker 3: You and I can see it. A lot of folks

580
00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:05,880
Speaker 3: looking at the league say this is untenable. But Silver's

581
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:07,560
Speaker 3: looking at it like, am I still gonna be here?

582
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:10,480
Speaker 3: I don't know if dude, I don't have to fix

583
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:12,680
Speaker 3: it because the machine rolls on think about it.

584
00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:15,080
Speaker 1: But I don't know how long the regular season has

585
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:19,040
Speaker 1: become unnecessary? Right, But now now that you're gonna start

586
00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:22,280
Speaker 1: seeing less people watch because tanking is gonna turn people away.

587
00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:24,040
Speaker 1: It's gonna turn people away from going to the games.

588
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:26,520
Speaker 1: We'll turn people away from watching the games. The more

589
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:29,280
Speaker 1: time goes on, the NBA just keeps adding problems.

590
00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:31,920
Speaker 3: Well, but that's the problem. But the help in terms

591
00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:34,600
Speaker 3: of your television thing is you can mask that because

592
00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:37,960
Speaker 3: you're you'll have games like tonight, Right, here's Boston and Denver. Hey,

593
00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:42,399
Speaker 3: here's another prime primetime game between two contending teams, and

594
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:44,399
Speaker 3: even if they sit a guy out, there's still fifty

595
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,800
Speaker 3: five win squads. Right that that's the way it works

596
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:50,159
Speaker 3: for TV. You can mask the problem. Like if you

597
00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:53,280
Speaker 3: want to go watch the Bulls or or other teams

598
00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:57,680
Speaker 3: where they're circling the drain perpetually, that's fine. But for

599
00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:00,320
Speaker 3: the national product, you got enough teams that you keep

600
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:02,320
Speaker 3: it with that eight to ten team cycle, you'll be

601
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:05,440
Speaker 3: just fine. Yeah. See, I don't I don't think you can.

602
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:09,359
Speaker 3: I mean, this is there. We have environmental problem.

603
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,359
Speaker 1: How when's the last time you had an NBA headline

604
00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:13,159
Speaker 1: about the league that was good, not about players, not

605
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:13,760
Speaker 1: about players.

606
00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 3: We talked, I just read gonna become Ralph Samsen. I'm gonna.

607
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:22,040
Speaker 3: I thought that was a very odd way to go.

608
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 3: What do you got last sure? Yeah, that that's a

609
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:28,160
Speaker 3: player situation. Was the last time, That's the last time

610
00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:33,040
Speaker 3: that really wasn't good? You can't the Lakers. You can't.

611
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:35,360
Speaker 3: It was great for the Laker, but now everybody hates Luke.

612
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:35,800
Speaker 6: You can't.

613
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:40,159
Speaker 1: You can't keep having problems where it's it's core of

614
00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:43,400
Speaker 1: the game stuff, where if every day is look at.

615
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:46,200
Speaker 3: The problems with this league, that that seeps into fane.

616
00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:48,440
Speaker 1: That's a trickle down from the top all the way

617
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:51,360
Speaker 1: through into the person that's got their finger on the remote, going, yeah,

618
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:53,760
Speaker 1: I don't care. I'm not gonna Why am I gonna pay? Oh,

619
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:55,159
Speaker 1: they're tanking. I'm not paying to go to that game.

620
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:56,639
Speaker 1: The game is too expense. I'm not gonna go. I

621
00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:58,360
Speaker 1: don't even know if the stars are gonna is Luca

622
00:27:58,400 --> 00:27:59,920
Speaker 1: gonna play tonight? Is Lebron gonna play it?

623
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:02,399
Speaker 3: I don't even know. Yeah, you know what, forget, I'm

624
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:04,200
Speaker 3: not going to that game. I'm not turning this game

625
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:06,719
Speaker 3: on again. You're gonna you're starting to see it, right,

626
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 3: this is when no tanking has come into the open.

627
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:10,480
Speaker 3: There's no solution, Right, gambling has come into the open.

628
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:14,359
Speaker 3: There's no solution. Uh, regular season not not counting, no solution.

629
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:16,760
Speaker 3: And it's been all these band aid things that have

630
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:19,119
Speaker 3: come up, and it doesn't matter because the players and

631
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 3: the owner are still shrugging and go, yeah, whatever, we're

632
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:25,480
Speaker 3: still going to keep from the From the pacers side

633
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:27,840
Speaker 3: of it, right, they're holding up the sign like their

634
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:31,639
Speaker 3: cusack and say anything just to say, uh, this doesn't

635
00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:34,879
Speaker 3: hurt enough, We'll continue to do it because we stink.

636
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,040
Speaker 3: And there's Haliburton over there. He's waving at you and

637
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 3: smiling because he can't play. That's all we got. And

638
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:43,880
Speaker 3: he's playing, then at least have a Marque player. But

639
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:47,440
Speaker 3: you keep going down the line is until you make

640
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:51,720
Speaker 3: it hurt or you change the functionality of the draft

641
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 3: and how that. And we've seen all the proposals and he's.

642
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,400
Speaker 1: Not he's not done any of these things. Twenty years

643
00:28:57,440 --> 00:28:59,520
Speaker 1: to do something and he's not done it. He's all

644
00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:01,000
Speaker 1: of a sudden he not going to start doing it.

645
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 3: But in the end he works for the owners and

646
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 3: if they're not mad about it, especially if again, hey

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Speaker 3: what did they get fined? Oh yeah, we could do that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah that's that.

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Speaker 1: That's the peanuts sold in that section of the three hundred.

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Speaker 1: I think the I think the owners once they get

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Speaker 1: to hey, the tanking is not working for us. We're

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Speaker 1: not guaranteed to get it right.

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Speaker 3: We're not.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how so far what the streaming UH

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Speaker 1: relationship has been like with the NBA so far, But

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Speaker 1: when when you keep putting out these these blowout games,

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Speaker 1: I'm telling it's not an overnight thing. This is part

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Speaker 1: of the boulder going down the hill. Yeah, that drugs

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Speaker 1: and and again another commissioner would have taken care of

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Speaker 1: these problems, but he's afraid to go up against anybody's

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Speaker 1: afraid to have any sort of strong uh, a strong

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Speaker 1: stance and anything other than well, hey, what if we

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Speaker 1: did this, What if we kind of dipped our toe

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Speaker 1: in and kind of fixed it a little bit this

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Speaker 1: way or this way? Would that make everybody happy? He's

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Speaker 1: let's make everybody happy. We actually have the sign of

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Speaker 1: a pier somewhere. It's like, you can't make everybody happy.

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Speaker 3: You're not a taco. He's the He's the worst. He

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Speaker 3: is the worst man, He's the worst.

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Speaker 1: Time now to find out what's trending in the wide

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Speaker 1: world of sports, and someone who's been called the Tyrese

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Speaker 1: Haliburton of Fox Sports Radio. She likes to wear a

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Speaker 1: T shirt that says overrated with a question mark.

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Speaker 3: It's manci overrate that son.

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Speaker 7: I think that's what the T shirt says. The T

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Speaker 7: shirt says without the sun.

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Speaker 3: Did you say a T shirt?

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Speaker 7: T shirts?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, hold on, a T.

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Speaker 2: Shirt I think says overrate that.

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Speaker 3: I like ch all right, T shirt, TCHERT shirt, T shirt,

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Speaker 3: T shirt say toy boat five times really fast?

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Speaker 4: Shut up, you're.

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Speaker 3: Gonna go to the NBA.

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Speaker 7: There's one game going on. It's the Celtics and the

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Speaker 7: Nuggets in Denver. Boston is up right now twenty two

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Speaker 7: to twenty, Jalen Brown leading the way with twelve points.

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Speaker 7: The rest of the NBA, not that it was a

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Speaker 7: long slate, but it has wrapped up. Make that ten

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Speaker 7: in a row for the Spurs. That's how many they've won.

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Speaker 7: They held on to defeat the Raptors in Toronto one

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Speaker 7: ten to one. Oh. So the Pistons pulled away, really

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Speaker 7: outscored the Thunder in the second quarter and that's what

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Speaker 7: sealed the win. They beat the Thunder one twenty four

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Speaker 7: to one, sixteen Kate Cunningham twenty nine points, thirteen assists. Technically,

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Speaker 7: the Pistons right now have the best record in the

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Speaker 7: league because they're forty three and fourteen. The Thunder are

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Speaker 7: forty five and fifteen. The Warriors crushed the Grizzlies won

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Speaker 7: thirty three to one twelve. The Bucks and the Cavs

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Speaker 7: went down to the wire. Very shorthanded Cavaliers team no

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Speaker 7: James Harden, no Donovan Mitchell, no Evan Mobley, but the

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Speaker 7: Bucks won it. Kevin Porter Junior with the game win.

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Speaker 7: He shot one eighteen to one sixteen. Jared Allen looked

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Speaker 7: like he had the putback in on time to tie

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Speaker 7: the game. Best they said he did not release them

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Speaker 7: all in time. So that's how the Bucks won it

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Speaker 7: and the Rockets defeated. The Kings won twenty eighteen ninety

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Speaker 7: seven behind a triple double from Alpah and Shngoon. When

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Speaker 7: it comes to men's college hoops, the upset that you

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Speaker 7: guys started the show with Number six Yukon just shutting

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Speaker 7: down Number fifteen Saint John's offense. Seventy two to five

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Speaker 7: forty was the final score. Saint John's made eleven shots

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Speaker 7: the entire game, miss twenty four consecutive shots in the

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Speaker 7: second half. No other upset yet, maybe we won't have

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Speaker 7: one right now. Number twenty Arkansas Leeds, Texas A and

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Speaker 7: M fifty four to forty five. Halfway through the second half,

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Speaker 7: with about seven minutes to go, Number seventeen Alabama up

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Speaker 7: on Mississippi State eighty four to fifty eight, and with

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Speaker 7: about six minutes to go, Number nine Gonzaga is up

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Speaker 7: on Portland seventy one to thirty nine. The NHL is

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Speaker 7: back from the Winter Olympics break. Some of the games

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Speaker 7: have wrapped up. The Lightning had won five in a

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Speaker 7: row prior to the break. Make that six in a

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Speaker 7: row because they beat the Maple Leaves forty two. The

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Speaker 7: Stars had one six in a row prior to the break,

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Speaker 7: so'll make it seven in a row because they outscored

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Speaker 7: the crack In four to one. Right now, the Oilers

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Speaker 7: lead the Ducks one zero, and they literally just got

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Speaker 7: going in the first period. Jets and Canucks are tied

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Speaker 7: at one late in the first period. Avalanche over the

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Speaker 7: Mammoth three to two late in the second period. Other

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Speaker 7: news today in the NFL, Browns head coach Odd Monkin

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Speaker 7: did say that there's gonna be a quarterback competition this

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Speaker 7: offseason involving Shador Sanders, Deshaun Watson, and possibly another quarterback

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Speaker 7: acquired this offseason. The Jaguars are gonna play two home

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Speaker 7: games in London next week or next week next season.

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Speaker 3: In back to back weeks.

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Speaker 7: Commanders are also gonna play a game in London.

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Speaker 4: And lastly, here guys.

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Speaker 7: In baseball, the Diamondbacks announced that pitcher Merrill Kelly is

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Speaker 7: gonna miss opening Day with the back injury. There is

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Speaker 7: no timetable for his return, while the Yankees announced that

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Speaker 7: they are retiring CC Sabbathia is number fifty two, honoring

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Speaker 7: him with the plaque in Monument Park on September twenty sixth.

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Speaker 1: Back to you, guys, Wow, yeah, yeah, we gotta do something.

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Speaker 1: We haven't retired a number a while.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Wait, let's let's go for Sabathia. Really yeah, okay, but where.

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Speaker 7: Is it gonna go? Where do you fit him in?

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Speaker 1: Because there's no space. You know, it could be one

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Speaker 1: of those mobile than this get smaller, great, and it's

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Speaker 1: like a hologram in front of Roger Man. Yeah, Steve Rodgers.

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Speaker 3: Once beg you MONI coming up next, we.

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Speaker 1: Got the play of the day and the numbers are

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Speaker 1: in from the biggest sporting event since the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: You gotta hear it next, Jason to Mike Fox Sports Radio. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that Orioles rating for Peter a Lonzo's Home I Mean thirty.

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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 My best friend Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 1: Big numbers come in your way in ninety seconds, but first,

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Speaker 5: Well.

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Speaker 1: When you win ten in a row and Wemby has

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Speaker 1: an off night, doesn't happen Someone not named Wemby is

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Speaker 1: the play of the day. When the Spurs win big,

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Speaker 1: well the Aaron you can be the player of the day.

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Speaker 6: And Minamo had four free throws that was it in

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Speaker 6: the first quarter, left corner to Aaron Fox. Three on

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Speaker 6: the way got it Aaron Fox and a quick five

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Speaker 6: for the Spurs to start the second and a quicker

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Speaker 6: time out by Dark Irakovich here.

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Speaker 3: So there it is Spurs TV on the call, ten

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Speaker 3: in a row for the best team in the NBA.

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Speaker 3: Best team in the NBA. Always work for balance and definition.

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Speaker 3: It worked for Schwarzenegger and pumping Iron. It works for

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Speaker 3: the Spurs.

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Speaker 1: Now, man, I'll tell you uh now, the numbers have

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Speaker 1: come in from the Gold Medal game between the United

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Speaker 1: States and Canada on Sunday. Remember eight am East Coast time,

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Speaker 1: five am on the West coast.

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Speaker 3: Eighteen point six million viewers for the Gold Medal game.

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Speaker 3: Could have been eighteen good nineteen six with one or

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Speaker 3: two more if you'd gotten your ass out of it,

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Speaker 3: could have been eighteen point sixty seven six seven.

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Speaker 1: Gary Bettman, NHL commissioner, pretty upset, said, we could have

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Speaker 1: We could have hit maybe the high mark, which was

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Speaker 1: the twenty ten Gold Medal game twenty seven million for

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Speaker 1: the United States Canada, the big Sydney Crosby goal. But

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Speaker 1: I'd be honest with you, this game was bigger. If

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Speaker 1: you had it on and a better time slot, probably

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Speaker 1: would have hit thirty million. You probably would hit thirty

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Speaker 1: million people watching this game.

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Speaker 3: You know what might have helped to over the course

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Speaker 3: of the Olympic program, if you'd allow people to use

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Speaker 3: video highlights and actually show your sport.

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Speaker 1: That's the thing is that Gary Bettman today could those things.

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Speaker 1: He waited on saying a better time slot. We talked

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Speaker 1: about not having a better time slot for that game,

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Speaker 1: being able to share the results. People want to see

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Speaker 1: things rather than just have to wait because the Olympics

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Speaker 1: have an embargo on things. But this is this is

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Speaker 1: where the issue lies with stuff like that, right with

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Speaker 1: where why do we have this this game? Why do

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Speaker 1: we have this game on here early in the morning.

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Speaker 1: Why do we have the women's gold medal game in

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Speaker 1: hockey opposite the women's show in figure scanning?

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Speaker 7: Right?

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Speaker 1: That doesn't make any sense. The Olympics are still stuck

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Speaker 1: so much in the past. They don't understand and there's

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Speaker 1: not enough influence that NBC and broadcast partners have that

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Speaker 1: you know what, Hey, the Olympics is a television show. Okay,

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Speaker 1: understand that the Olympics is just the super Bowl is

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Speaker 1: a TV show. The NCAA tournament in basketball is a

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Speaker 1: TV show. It is not a sporting event. It is

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Speaker 1: a television show. And still the Olympics acts and and

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Speaker 1: and puts their strategies together, like, we're putting on this

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Speaker 1: event and we're doing it for the people who are

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Speaker 1: at the Olympics and we want people to be able

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Speaker 1: to go see this fit in this wing. No, that's

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Speaker 1: not what you're doing it for.

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Speaker 3: That's not you.

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Speaker 1: You were doing it for the millions upon millions of

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Speaker 1: people across the globe who want to make it as

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Speaker 1: easy as possible to see all the events they can.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but when you oh, but the closing ceremonies.

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Speaker 1: People can watch closing ceremonies anytime people want. There's a

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Speaker 1: reason why Olympic Hockey Men's is the last event of

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Speaker 1: the Olympics. It's a big deal of people want to see.

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Speaker 1: Once you saw the goal that you had in the

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Speaker 1: United States Canada, yeah, move it to a better time slot.

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Speaker 1: I'm bummed that NBC didn't have more saying it. Maybe

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Speaker 1: they will going forward. But this is where the Olympics

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Speaker 1: and the people in the USOC and in charges like, yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: you're doing it like it's years and years and years ago.

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Speaker 3: That's it. It's a television show and you have to

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Speaker 3: make it television friendly. And they don't get that. That's

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Speaker 3: the thing institutionalized thinking right of the way it has

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Speaker 3: always been. And again this is one that apply as

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Speaker 3: you will in your personal and professional lives. It's like

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Speaker 3: just because something's been done a certain way doesn't mean

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Speaker 3: the world hasn't evolved in terms of the immediacy of this. Right.

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Speaker 3: We talk about the NBA Once upon a time, you

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Speaker 3: and I were were just weep ups when it was

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Speaker 3: still happening. But you know, tape delay NBA Finals, Well,

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Speaker 3: that went out the way because you realize how much

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Speaker 3: you could sell those ad spots for and even now

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Speaker 3: what those knows are. You see the historic numbers you

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Speaker 3: have for the Super Bowl and certainly for the Olympics.

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Speaker 3: As you roll through the immediacy, the ability to go

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Speaker 3: through the Peacock app through the television partners and all

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Speaker 3: their their different on air products, that you can spread

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Speaker 3: it out and get people the immediacy of these these games,

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Speaker 3: and they're not waiting, right, You're not waiting for the

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Speaker 3: newspaper tomorrow, You're not waiting for the local news. I

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Speaker 3: was laughing at I was in the studio watching you know,

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Speaker 3: I'm on air for the first two periods and atop

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Speaker 3: the live game was ESPN they were showing stills like

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Speaker 3: it was a pay per view, like it was boxing. Hey,

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Speaker 3: look at this, Like we can't show you the video,

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Speaker 3: but take a look at this angle here. It's like,

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Speaker 3: what the hell are we doing? You're absolutely murdering the

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Speaker 3: opportunity to push your sport, to push back. This is

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Speaker 3: where all the other broadcasters have to realize, this is

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Speaker 3: a moment in time as a country you get to

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Speaker 3: capitalize on. I know, I'd like to think that the

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Speaker 3: broadcasters would do it if they had more power, but

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Speaker 3: they probably don't. Got to figure out how to get

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Speaker 3: juice in the next Really you have to.

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Speaker 1: It's a television show man, and it's not just done

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Speaker 1: for the people that are going to the games in Italy.

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Speaker 1: It got a worldwide audience. I'm telling you that this

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Speaker 1: is what if I was in.

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Speaker 3: Charge of it.

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Speaker 4: It only played seven other times that day.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but once people knew the result, more people to

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Speaker 1: watch again, thirty million people to watch it live, A

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Speaker 1: big story out of Major League Baseball coming up next.

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Speaker 3: Fox