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Speaker 1: Well, well, well, the league announced the all star starters.

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Speaker 1: Is that time already? The Bucks and Pacers are on

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Speaker 1: the rise. We may have a flurry of deadline action

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Speaker 1: and more to discuss with actor and comedian Jackies Neil,

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Speaker 1: who you know from maybe The Daily Ziece. He also

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Speaker 1: might know him from Grand Crew comedian Flash, the live

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Speaker 1: show that everybody should be attending on the regular in

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles, also drop Out TV and today's episode. I'm

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Speaker 1: Jack O'Brien.

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Speaker 2: And I'm producer Jabari being from Miles and this ismas

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Speaker 2: Miles and Jack, I'm mad boo.

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Speaker 3: And sometimes.

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Speaker 4: Sorry guy it luka do ch test.

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Speaker 5: Okay, there you go and be driving spinning fat number eighteen.

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Speaker 3: That's good.

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Speaker 6: Secure the Suffox or NBA Champions over the couple to.

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Speaker 1: What's up?

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Speaker 4: Hello? Three?

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Speaker 5: I'm doing that yogish three from the other from the

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Speaker 5: other side of the court, and I'm airballing.

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Speaker 1: That was that was annoying when he did that. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: I just annoyed when he can like do stuff that.

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Speaker 5: And you know what, you know what was even more

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Speaker 5: annoying about it too, is that like he had like

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Speaker 5: a perfect flicker of the wrist too. It wasn't just

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Speaker 5: like it wasn't just like a throw. It was truly

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Speaker 5: like he shot the basketball. Yeah, it was.

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Speaker 1: It was one of those things that's like, oh, you

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Speaker 1: would have been the best darts player in the world

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Speaker 1: if you decided to crazy. Anyways, Ja Keith, We're thrilled

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Speaker 1: to Jack.

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Speaker 4: I'm thrilled to be here.

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Speaker 1: So last week we chose as our game of the

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Speaker 5: I've heard of Rockets, I've heard they go on into space. Right,

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Speaker 5: I don't know what a Cavalier is, Rockets, Calves. I

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Speaker 1: It is amazing, like how strange a name can be,

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Speaker 1: and it's just like part of ours again, like you

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Speaker 1: it's thunderous. You know, you could give a team, call

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Speaker 1: a team the Cavaliers, and I'm sure at the time

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Speaker 1: the Calves, man.

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Speaker 4: The Calves. Yeah, we'll showing it up.

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Speaker 5: I know I know we you know, not not speaking

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Speaker 5: on gun violence or anything, but let them be bullets.

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Speaker 4: Bro.

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Speaker 3: What I'm saying, bring back the old school Ridgers.

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Speaker 1: You know, the Rockets went into Cleveland came away with

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Speaker 1: was there, like the Cavs fourth loss in a row.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they're on a on a little side here, they're

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Speaker 5: little scared, which will happen?

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, well allow it, well allow it.

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Speaker 5: It's amazing because, like you know, before this little skined,

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Speaker 4: When teams are here, ninety plus.

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Speaker 5: Percent of them have stretches like this, so you realize

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they were on pace to win seventy games, and

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Speaker 5: And now I truly would not be surprised if they

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I just want them to stay away ahead of Boston.

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Speaker 1: That's all I ask of you. Cleveland.

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Speaker 1: And Boston's been on a bit of a slide of

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Speaker 3: Say it, but to say it both ways and you

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Speaker 2: Again?

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Speaker 5: Is this is he's not a rookie right? No, he's

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Speaker 5: It's so weird because you know, we are old, so

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Speaker 4: But like like that, now he's gonna he's gonna outplay

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Speaker 3: He's gonna outplay one of his competitors' sons.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and then but still, but the crazy thing is

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Speaker 5: These past like two three years, this new like rookie sophomore,

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Speaker 1: It's so fun. There's so many good young players. It's yeah.

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Speaker 1: The So we always talk about the shot making we

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Speaker 4: It's a weapon.

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Speaker 4: If you put them on the court. Y'all ain't shooting

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Speaker 5: You have to go guard, you have to feed, and

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Speaker 4: So I think it's only good for the league.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you guys both know you may make

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Speaker 2: excellent points, and now Jack, I'm not going to disagree.

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Speaker 3: In fact, I agree wholeheartedly.

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Speaker 2: The reality is this we you know, it has been

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Speaker 3: For a long time.

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Speaker 2: So to most to Jaquiz's point, from twenty fourteen to

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Speaker 2: But the reality is you have more and more teams

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Speaker 2: Like if you've got a Steff Hey, great, let that

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Speaker 2: what I'm intrigued or what I'm hope with, what this

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Speaker 2: Going to look exactly the same UH and and hopefully

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Speaker 2: can find out that there are more than one way

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Speaker 3: Please more of it?

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Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break. We'll come back.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about some things from around the league. We'll

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Speaker 1: and we have the All Star starters. Were we're in.

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Speaker 1: They're in. They just came hot off the press. I know,

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Speaker 1: we got Jalen Brunson, Donovan Mitchell, Big Cat, Karl Anthony Towns.

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Speaker 1: Has he been a starter before?

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Speaker 4: Yes, he has, let me go. Okay, if it was.

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Speaker 3: Far too confidently, I was like, no, let me go dope.

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Speaker 4: Check if he has it's been one time yeah, but

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Speaker 1: He's he's surprisingly high on the MVP voting, Like I mean, Ben, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Lebron are the captains. Yes, that Lebron James was the

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Speaker 1: So we have like the you know, this is Jannis's

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Speaker 4: He hasn't played for fifteen years.

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Speaker 3: Same with the next guy he's about to.

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Speaker 1: Do, Kendrick Perkins. He was drafted. It's not not he

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Speaker 5: Like, yeah, okay, I bet you he can't even dribble

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Speaker 1: Dude, is Kendrick Perkins? Like if you that, that's a

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Speaker 1: good point because if you look at what Kendrick Perkins

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Speaker 5: Luke coach against Lebron and one of those finals like

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Speaker 3: He coached Lebron.

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Speaker 5: He coached Lebron to the Lakers.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, crazy, like years ago. He coached years ago.

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Speaker 4: Lebron has been with the Lakers for like six years.

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Speaker 1: What I'm making is like you look at like Luke Walton,

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Speaker 1: you'd expect that was a lifetime ago. Lebron James is

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Speaker 5: I feel like, oh yeah, yeah, he's a better basketball player.

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Speaker 4: Like how still athletically gifted? Which is still I mean.

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Speaker 1: Does you know dunks? That seem impossible to me?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's crazy, man.

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Speaker 1: Kat seems old to me. Katie's six less All Star

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Speaker 2: Just a little bit of added on top of that.

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Speaker 2: The average NBA career is four and a half years.

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Speaker 2: Lebron has been a Laker for seventh seed. This is

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Speaker 3: To even getting here, and this is year seven for

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you know, listen, I love a Lebron.

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Speaker 5: I'm not a Lebron hater anymore in my life. I

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Speaker 1: And by the way, the very first piece of media

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Speaker 4: Oh, I was a Lebron hater, baby.

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Speaker 8: Oh, if you made some hater ray from my hate,

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Speaker 5: Slimy and things. But no, I love Lebron, man, I

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Speaker 4: It's just a fan vote.

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Speaker 5: Do y'all think there is any in the past four

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Speaker 3: Years, It feels like it was a couple of years ago.

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Speaker 2: the fans. YEA, there was probably an artis probably an

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Speaker 2: argument at that point yeah, you know.

439
00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,760
Speaker 5: But not play wise, No, I mean you think he's

440
00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:07,800
Speaker 5: still like it's all star level player like every single season.

441
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Speaker 2: I think this is the first year like and this

442
00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:12,280
Speaker 2: is probably gonna get get going to get me in trouble.

443
00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:13,919
Speaker 2: But I think this is the first year where you

444
00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:16,679
Speaker 2: can you can say like, okay, it kind to the

445
00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:18,520
Speaker 2: point that you just made like, oh.

446
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Speaker 3: He is forty because you know.

447
00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:22,160
Speaker 2: There's some old man, you know, you know, stuff going

448
00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:23,080
Speaker 2: on at different times.

449
00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:26,440
Speaker 3: And once again, I am not knocking Lebron James.

450
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Speaker 2: The fact that he's in year twenty two is absolutely

451
00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:31,320
Speaker 2: absurd and I will always marvel at that. But yes,

452
00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:35,240
Speaker 2: there are different there are definitely some signs of Okay,

453
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Speaker 2: let's uh, let's keep him healthy for the list.

454
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Speaker 3: Let's try to do one more run with him more,

455
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Speaker 3: one more deep runt.

456
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so this is actually did you guys see this

457
00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:47,560
Speaker 1: chart where it had it was a gallop pole? I

458
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Speaker 1: believe ooh they picked presidents. Mm, so this is okay. Now,

459
00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:57,960
Speaker 1: this is sports Poll thirty years of intelligence. They asked

460
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Speaker 1: Americans what their favorite athlete was and then just have

461
00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:05,440
Speaker 1: it charted by who's number one in any giving year.

462
00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:09,960
Speaker 1: From nineteen ninety five to two thousand and six. The

463
00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:13,520
Speaker 1: answer is Michael Jordan. Yeah, okay, And then it's gone

464
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Speaker 1: by quarter, so uh six to two thousand and ten,

465
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Speaker 1: it's like late two thousand and nine, No, late so

466
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Speaker 1: six to late twenty ten. Wood, Oh yeah, sorry.

467
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Speaker 4: Sorry, no, no, it's okay, okay, all.

468
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Speaker 1: Right, well we'll go over all right. Next comes a

469
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Speaker 1: single quarter where it is a football.

470
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Speaker 4: Player, which is two thousand and ten.

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Speaker 1: Twenty ten a quarter in two thousand and ten.

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Speaker 5: Just twenty ten oh one quarterball and it's a football player.

473
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Speaker 4: Yeah, is it? It can't be Tom Brady we all

474
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Speaker 4: hate him, is it?

475
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Speaker 1: You got it for a single three month period, it's

476
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Speaker 1: Peyton Manning. He gets a couple three month periods later.

477
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Speaker 1: H Then there's three month where it is back to

478
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Speaker 1: an NBA player. That's not Michael Jordan, it's Kobe Yep. Yeah,

479
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Speaker 1: I would have never guessed Kobe. I would have assumed that.

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Speaker 3: That would that Celtics in the final second.

481
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that Kobe was like, you know, oh that we

482
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Speaker 5: appreciate you as a player.

483
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Speaker 4: Now that it goes.

484
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Speaker 8: Back to Jordan for another three years, that's purely lebron hey, bro,

485
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Speaker 8: because I would have voted for think.

486
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Speaker 1: About it in twenty eleven, twenty eleven through twenty like

487
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Speaker 1: mid twenty thirteen, that's the number one most popular favorite

488
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Speaker 1: pro athlete. And like granted, so in the height of

489
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Speaker 1: his career, it was like twenty percent of people all

490
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Speaker 1: have the same favorite athlete, and then like once it

491
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Speaker 1: becomes Tiger, it's like in the like seven percent of

492
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Speaker 1: people have the same favorite athlete. So now we're back

493
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Speaker 1: to Jordan and it's like down around six seven percent

494
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Speaker 1: where Michael Jordan is people's favorite athletes. Trades back and

495
00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:05,480
Speaker 1: forth between Jordan and Peyton Manning, but it's mostly until

496
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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. It becomes another a different current NBA player

497
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Speaker 1: again in twenty sixteen.

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Speaker 4: I mean I would say, I would say it's Steph.

499
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Speaker 1: It's Steph for one quarter and that's it for the

500
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Speaker 1: entirety of the whole thing. He gets it for one quarter.

501
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Speaker 1: That's just shocking to me. Then it goes back to

502
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Speaker 1: Jordans for three quarters.

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Speaker 8: Come on, that Lebron Hayte was pure man, that was

504
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Speaker 8: pure in twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 1: In twenty seventeen, it becomes Lebron James. Yeah, yeah, when

506
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Speaker 1: he wins the title with Cleveland. Yeah.

507
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that's when a lot of Lebron hater's

508
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:48,199
Speaker 5: leg was like, you know what, yes, yeah, right, what

509
00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:49,480
Speaker 5: else is there to hate now?

510
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Speaker 1: Wait?

511
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Speaker 2: Actually momentarily him in twenty seventeen when people were mad

512
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Speaker 2: that a KD had joined Stephan Oh, because he won

513
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:03,439
Speaker 2: it in twenty sixteen and it was still Jordan, So

514
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 2: they gave him one quarter just because they were mad

515
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Speaker 2: about about the KD stuff connection.

516
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that they give him one quarter, then three

517
00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:15,360
Speaker 1: more Jordan, then Lebron for three quarters, so he has

518
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Speaker 1: it for a total of a year. Then it goes

519
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:21,080
Speaker 1: to somebody whose name you've already mentioned, a football player,

520
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Speaker 1: Tom Brady. Tom Brady in twenty nineteen for a quarter

521
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Speaker 1: that I could see that a little bit, and then

522
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Speaker 1: another two straight years of Michael Jordan.

523
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Speaker 4: This, I love this, so it's unbelievable.

524
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Speaker 1: And then back and forth between Brady and Jordan, and

525
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Speaker 1: then it's Brady like twenty two through twenty three, it's Brady, uh,

526
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Speaker 1: then Jordan for like still last year for uh two quarters,

527
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,879
Speaker 1: and then Messi gets it for a single quarter of

528
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Speaker 1: all of which to say, Michael Jordan remains king like

529
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Speaker 1: it's unbelievable how popular he is and always has been.

530
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Speaker 1: But also like I mean, look at who, like you know,

531
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Speaker 1: Lebron kd Are are you know, players who are still

532
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Speaker 1: great but they've you know, people like who they grew

533
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,000
Speaker 1: up with. Like that's gonna be a thing for a

534
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:14,119
Speaker 1: long time. And everybody's like, oh, the NBA is like

535
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:17,600
Speaker 1: hard because like they don't have stars that are as

536
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:21,080
Speaker 1: popular coming up, Like you know, Lebron wasn't as popular

537
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:24,480
Speaker 1: coming up, but now he's the guy. It's still not

538
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Speaker 1: as popular as I mean, Jordan is like people have

539
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,760
Speaker 1: a religious relationship with they do.

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Speaker 5: I mean, you know, listen, here's the thing that's interesting

541
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Speaker 5: to me is if Lebron were to say, like this

542
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Speaker 5: is my last year and did a retirement tour, Lebron

543
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:42,720
Speaker 5: would be the most popular player on the planet of

544
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Speaker 5: any sport. And I think that would extend for you know,

545
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 5: a few years even after he retired, because Lebron does

546
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,080
Speaker 5: do a lot of things, like he'll probably go to Hollywood,

547
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:53,480
Speaker 5: He'll probably you know, so Lebron will have his hands

548
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 5: in a lot of cookie jars of popularity. It's just

549
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 5: he's been doing it so long and it's just like

550
00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 5: when is he gonna stop? But I think people, even

551
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 5: though he only got one quarter in there, which is

552
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 5: crazy to me, I think people underestimate how much of

553
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 5: a thorn in Lebron's career Steph Curry was and still

554
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:15,040
Speaker 5: is to a degree, like that stretch where they played

555
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:18,120
Speaker 5: each other five straight seasons in the finals or three

556
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:20,920
Speaker 5: or four straight seasons, whatever it was. And then also

557
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:24,720
Speaker 5: just like Steph's popularity even though like Steph isn't like

558
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:29,000
Speaker 5: Lebron James popular like Steph is. Basketball fans get mad

559
00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:31,480
Speaker 5: at me when I say this. Lebron James is obviously

560
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:33,920
Speaker 5: the goat of his era from two thousand and three

561
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,480
Speaker 5: to now, he's the goat. But Steph Curry changed the

562
00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 5: game way more than Lebron did, Like in my opinion,

563
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:45,640
Speaker 5: like he like you, Steph Curry literally changed basketball where

564
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:49,560
Speaker 5: on all levels where you have eight year old shooting

565
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 5: three point shots, you know, like and that's not that's

566
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 5: not taken away from Lebron. Lebron which was just doing

567
00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 5: things that we had seen already. He was just doing

568
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,680
Speaker 5: them at an exceptional like level that nobody has seen

569
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:06,200
Speaker 5: from those skills. But like Curry was like changing the game.

570
00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 5: So like Curry, and Curry also is now what sixteen

571
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:12,280
Speaker 5: seventeen seasons now and still playing. He's also a starter,

572
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:14,760
Speaker 5: still playing at the top of his level. Yeah, like

573
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:19,160
Speaker 5: these players occurred. Jordan played thirteen seasons with the Bulls.

574
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Speaker 5: We don't count the Wizard years. He played thirteen seasons

575
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:24,360
Speaker 5: with the Bulls, two of which were not full seasons,

576
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:27,480
Speaker 5: and he was icing his knees by ninety five.

577
00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:30,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, like that was it. That was his career.

578
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:34,240
Speaker 5: Eleven seasons and two half season, Like that was his career.

579
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Speaker 3: He can't get his ground Jordan Era. He can't get

580
00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 3: that love.

581
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Speaker 4: He can get.

582
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Speaker 5: I mean, look, if he wouldn't have got injured, I

583
00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 5: think those Wizards would have made the playoffs both years

584
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:46,720
Speaker 5: because he was still doing good. I know, like we

585
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:49,040
Speaker 5: frowned on those Wizards years. But like a lot of

586
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 5: people don't like to acknowledge that a lot of the

587
00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:54,400
Speaker 5: down time of those Wizards years was after he got

588
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 5: injured and he was a forty year old man who

589
00:30:57,080 --> 00:31:00,000
Speaker 5: had taken two two to three year breaks in his career.

590
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Speaker 1: So like I'm gonna get documentary about the Wizards years coming,

591
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 1: you know, like something's gonna be like Actually, when you

592
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:10,360
Speaker 1: look back at it, like though he was incredible, what

593
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 1: he was doing was wild because he was he was

594
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 1: still twenty.

595
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 5: He was still with about twenty bro. I guess all

596
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 5: these young players who like didn't respect him anymore.

597
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 1: How old was Jordan when he was with the Wizards

598
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Speaker 1: forty one?

599
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, like forty and forty one.

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Speaker 1: So this this year of Lebron's see of Lebron's career.

601
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 5: Yeah, with but he also took like three years off

602
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:37,800
Speaker 5: so he had to get back in basketball shape.

603
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true.

604
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 5: And also it was the nineties and early two thousands.

605
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 5: Technology was put some ice on your knees. Yeah, now

606
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 5: you know players have science behind their health.

607
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, where are you gonna say, just say, actually, thirty

608
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Speaker 2: eight thirty nine.

609
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Speaker 1: Thirty eight thirty nine, we've already had. We've already had

610
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Speaker 1: Lebron's seasons that were the Wizards years. The hate for Laura,

611
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 1: I mean it's just Jordan came first. I mean they're

612
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 1: like he changed how everybody thought about basketball. I get it,

613
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 1: but I'm just saying like that what Lebron is doing

614
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 1: is so ridiculous, Like he's already been through the Wizards

615
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:22,160
Speaker 1: years and is still doing it like took dragged the

616
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 1: Lakers to the Western Conference Finals in all of the

617
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Speaker 1: Wayne's years.

618
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 5: Talk to me when Lebron, when Lebron James go back

619
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 5: in time and play two years in college, talk to

620
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:39,720
Speaker 5: me when he go play for the Cleveland Indians farm team,

621
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:42,520
Speaker 5: and talk to me when you take a couple of

622
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 5: years off. Indeed, yeah, he should have.

623
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Speaker 1: Done all those things. To the point, that's actually a

624
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:47,880
Speaker 1: really good point.

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00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:51,800
Speaker 4: Talk tell me how great he is.

626
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,240
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, actually I'm never gonna talk about this again

627
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 1: until that happens. All right, let's take a quick break

628
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 1: and and we'll come back with my don't look now

629
00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:15,520
Speaker 1: of the week. And we're back, and I mean, just

630
00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 1: closing out the All Star thing real quick. Wemby would

631
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 1: have liked to see him a starter, But he'll be

632
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:22,880
Speaker 1: in there, and would have liked to see him a starter.

633
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:25,760
Speaker 1: He'll be in there well, you know, once the coaches

634
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 1: are added in, and then they'll be split into three

635
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:33,640
Speaker 1: teams and playing a single elimination tournament against the winners

636
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 1: of the Rising Stars Challenge. I'm not sure how it

637
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 1: all is gonna work. It's gonna be interesting, but yeah,

638
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:42,120
Speaker 1: just around the league, Bucks are playing well. They're in

639
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 1: the fourth fourth seed at the moment. Pacers went from

640
00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 1: a nine to fourteen start to twenty five and twenty

641
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 1: now five games over five hundred, So look out for

642
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:54,120
Speaker 1: the Central Division.

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00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:56,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, every team but the Bulls.

644
00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:59,640
Speaker 1: Maybe the Bulls started out looking.

645
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,880
Speaker 5: Yeah looking at you know, I mean I think they

646
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:04,959
Speaker 5: I think they will still make the play in and

647
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:08,280
Speaker 5: then you know, probably lose the first game and go home.

648
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:11,400
Speaker 5: But you know, yeah, we are who we are.

649
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:15,000
Speaker 1: You are the second most three point attempts of any

650
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 1: team this year, behind the Boston Celtics.

651
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:19,800
Speaker 4: Just more proof why the three is dead.

652
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 1: And then just the other big question is like where

653
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:26,759
Speaker 1: is Jimmy Butler headed. He's now been suspended for a

654
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 1: third time by the Miami Heat, and.

655
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:31,320
Speaker 5: He's suspended for the season right with the Heat at least,

656
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Speaker 5: And definitely, yeah, and definitely you think they're gonna you

657
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:36,359
Speaker 5: think they're gonna trade him more punish him by keeping

658
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:36,759
Speaker 5: him there.

659
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:38,520
Speaker 4: He obviously don't want to be there.

660
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:42,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, it feels like it would be smarter to have

661
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 1: something on your team via a trade than not.

662
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:50,640
Speaker 5: But I don't know, I could see him keeping Jimmy

663
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:54,880
Speaker 5: Butler there for the entire season, truly out of spite.

664
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:57,839
Speaker 1: We would take him. We would take him and give

665
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,319
Speaker 1: you the seventy six ers, would take him and give

666
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:03,240
Speaker 1: you Paul George. Just so I will speak on behalf

667
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:05,160
Speaker 1: of the seventy six ers organization.

668
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 3: F y, they need you to speak on behalf.

669
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:10,279
Speaker 5: The Bulls will take you, take them and give you

670
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 5: one of our statues outside of the United Center.

671
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 3: They can get the Jordan statue.

672
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 1: What so you got Jordan's, You got Eddie Curry? Yeah?

673
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 5: They you have no We're keeping Eddie Curry. Man, you

674
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:30,360
Speaker 5: can't come on that Chicago kid keeping Curry.

675
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:31,840
Speaker 4: You can have Jordan's.

676
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:34,080
Speaker 1: All right, we will take them. But I have no

677
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:36,719
Speaker 1: idea what's what's going to happen there. I don't look

678
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:41,719
Speaker 1: now of the week, Oh you know, I'd really love

679
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 1: to give it to these Lakers, winners of six of seven,

680
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:48,479
Speaker 1: just a game behind the Nuggets for the fourth seed

681
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:54,480
Speaker 1: in the Western Conference. Uh, connect is connecting, connects starting

682
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 1: to starting to make from deep. AD's last four games

683
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 1: have been bunk bron Is, you know, double digit assists

684
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 1: and three of the last four Vanderbilt, Who's always been

685
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 1: my X factor, just by the fact that he never

686
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:14,400
Speaker 1: plays is finally back playing again. Like having a perimeter

687
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:17,560
Speaker 1: defender like Vanderbilt and then Davis behind him makes the

688
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:21,239
Speaker 1: Lakers pretty scary. But I gotta give it to the Rockets.

689
00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 1: They beat the Celtics. I mean, I guess you both

690
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:27,840
Speaker 1: beat the Celtics, but the Rockets beat Boston in Boston.

691
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 1: Now thirty one and fourteen on the year, two games

692
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 1: up on the Grizzlies, staying with him range of the thunder.

693
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:41,680
Speaker 1: It's so wild how good they are. I'm in toxin

694
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:45,799
Speaker 1: hit the game winner in Boston. So I mean, it's

695
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:48,400
Speaker 1: just it's too much fun. It's too much fun right

696
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 1: now for the Rockets. I gotta give it to them.

697
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:54,160
Speaker 1: The official Jack O'Brien, don't look now, the official.

698
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would say if I was, if I was

699
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:58,279
Speaker 5: to have one of those don't look now, I would

700
00:36:58,320 --> 00:36:59,760
Speaker 5: say it's the Milwaukee Bucks.

701
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.

702
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:05,360
Speaker 5: You know, eight wins out of the last ten. You know,

703
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 5: after all the talk about like Doc Rivers it was

704
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:13,800
Speaker 5: actually worse for the team and everything like that, which

705
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,439
Speaker 5: you know, I can understand why that conversation was being had,

706
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:20,759
Speaker 5: but you know, they are turning it around, and you

707
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 5: know they still got Giannis, who's still top five player

708
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 5: in the NBA right now, especially if he's on, he's

709
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:33,839
Speaker 5: very unstoppable. And the team looks they look they look

710
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:35,880
Speaker 5: like they can make some noise in the East and

711
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 5: get up there to the top three and and you know,

712
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 5: be a problem for any team they play. So yeah,

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00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:43,680
Speaker 5: I would say the Bucks are looking looking pretty hot

714
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:44,399
Speaker 5: right now too.

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00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, looking hot hot looks out of Noah.

716
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:50,240
Speaker 3: If I had one of those, I would choose a Lakers.

717
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:51,719
Speaker 3: But you know that's you.

718
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 1: That doesn't that doesn't sound like the It is the

719
00:37:57,160 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 1: rabbit fire round of questioning. Yeah, we throw a bunch

720
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:03,280
Speaker 1: of questions that you you gotta choose the right answer.

721
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 1: There are right answers, uh, and there are wrong answers.

722
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:10,439
Speaker 1: And there's a chance that we might try and throw

723
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:14,320
Speaker 1: you off your game a little bit or just off topic. Okay,

724
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:18,080
Speaker 1: you just gotta just gotta not let us do that, Okay,

725
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:22,560
Speaker 1: or you can, it doesn't really matter. Brian, start the clock.

726
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 1: Thank you, Brian. All Right, we're gonna open it up

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Speaker 1: with this or that. Brought to you by super producer

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Speaker 1: Jabari Davis. These are imaginary, create your own players that

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00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:39,799
Speaker 1: are a lot of fun Jabari, you kick it off,

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Speaker 1: I'll come go back and forth.

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Speaker 2: I got you, okay, yeah, yeah, all right, So you

732
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 2: have this or that, who would be the more dominant player,

733
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:52,240
Speaker 2: Magic with Jordan's athleticism or Jordan at.

734
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:57,400
Speaker 4: Six foot nine, Magic with Jordan's athleticism.

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00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:00,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean yeah, because then it's what are you

736
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 3: gonna do?

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00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:00,920
Speaker 5: It?

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00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:01,200
Speaker 3: Said?

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00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:03,560
Speaker 5: Yeah, because what else Jordan's gonna do with six nine?

740
00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:07,839
Speaker 5: He was already dunking on people. He's not much else

741
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,360
Speaker 5: he was not is anything that he would do that

742
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:12,160
Speaker 5: he wasn't already.

743
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 1: That's fine, I gotta go. Jordan to sixth nine really unfortunate.

744
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:18,319
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it changes his game a little bit.

745
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:21,799
Speaker 1: Maybe, Yeah, I mean that's true. So I guess that's

746
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:25,239
Speaker 1: the question, Like does he become six nine and then

747
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:27,280
Speaker 1: he like comes in the league as a post player

748
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 1: or something like yeah, yeah, they're like this guy, this

749
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:34,800
Speaker 1: guy can really bang in the paint.

750
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:39,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, Or is he six nine and he's exactly the

751
00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:40,320
Speaker 5: same Jordan, He's.

752
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 1: Exactly the same at six nine, only three extras.

753
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:45,919
Speaker 3: He becomes the.

754
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,239
Speaker 1: Best I mean he might already be. He's probably the

755
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 1: best perimeter defender, but like he.

756
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:54,480
Speaker 4: Becomes Lebron, he becomes so with Jordan's he's.

757
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:56,840
Speaker 3: Jordan slash a Kim at that point.

758
00:39:56,760 --> 00:40:01,240
Speaker 5: Yeah and maybe maybe, Yeah, I guess I was thinking

759
00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:02,960
Speaker 5: of it, like, you know what else, what could he

760
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:04,880
Speaker 5: not do? But you give him three extra inches and

761
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:10,799
Speaker 5: now with that fade away, uh and yeah, I don't know,

762
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:13,000
Speaker 5: that's a good question. I already locked in, so you know,

763
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 5: black Man don't cheat, so I'm not gonna change not

764
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:17,920
Speaker 5: change up.

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00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:23,160
Speaker 1: Next we got Ai with Mike's height or Kobe with

766
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:25,680
Speaker 1: Steph's jumper. Ooh, that's good.

767
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:27,280
Speaker 4: I think.

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00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:31,799
Speaker 5: I think I would say Ai with with who's height

769
00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:36,560
Speaker 5: Jordan's height? Yeah six, so like so like five six

770
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:39,440
Speaker 5: extra inches because we know whatever his listed height was,

771
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:42,960
Speaker 5: he was only six foot. Yeah, yeah, I would say

772
00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 5: Ai with Jordan's height would be interesting because like he

773
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:52,000
Speaker 5: probably gets injured less because it's bigger, because he's bigger

774
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 5: because he played a style where it's like you're too

775
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 5: small to play this style, but he was just so good,

776
00:40:57,239 --> 00:41:00,560
Speaker 5: So he probably gets injured less and like his jumper

777
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 5: probably becomes better versus Kobe, like with the stuff jumper, Like.

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00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:06,800
Speaker 4: It would be dope.

779
00:41:07,239 --> 00:41:09,319
Speaker 5: It would be dope, But like, do we really need

780
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:12,400
Speaker 5: Kobe going from forty shots a game to sixty because.

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00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:16,280
Speaker 1: He was like, I'm gonna say, whoever, whichever one you picked,

782
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:21,439
Speaker 1: the one point barrier has been broken routinely by that point.

783
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:26,000
Speaker 1: On average, they're putting up so many shots.

784
00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:27,400
Speaker 4: They're putting shots.

785
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:31,120
Speaker 2: Bro, if you gave Kobe's steps jumper, I think he

786
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:34,560
Speaker 2: honestly really would average like fifty shots like every single

787
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:37,719
Speaker 2: like like not not being hyperbolic.

788
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,240
Speaker 5: Yeah, there would be no like you thought he didn't

789
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 5: pass the ball before, Kobe would not have passed. Kobe

790
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:49,200
Speaker 5: would have passed to himself every single player.

791
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:53,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, this is the best option, all right, keeping.

792
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:54,279
Speaker 1: It going, ball ball, ball ball.

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00:41:54,480 --> 00:42:00,360
Speaker 2: Yah. He wakes up screaming it all right. One for

794
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:03,160
Speaker 2: you of this type, it's a Keen with Shack's power

795
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:06,600
Speaker 2: or Shack with the Chem's agility and handle.

796
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:09,920
Speaker 4: Does Shack still have his power? That's the same thing, man,

797
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:12,279
Speaker 4: because one of them.

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00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:17,600
Speaker 3: Like, that's a good point. I'll take transfers to Shack,

799
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:19,919
Speaker 3: transfers to a Keem's power and a Gill.

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00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:23,360
Speaker 4: Okay, Okay, that's a good point though. I mean I

801
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:27,279
Speaker 4: guess I would go a Keem with Man the dream shape.

802
00:42:27,719 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, with dream Quake.

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00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:33,439
Speaker 5: Yeah, and the King was a better shooter, yeah, kind

804
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:35,160
Speaker 5: of than Shack is or was.

805
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:38,440
Speaker 4: But like that's the thing, like Shack is not even.

806
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:42,239
Speaker 5: Offensively, because offensively, Shaq and the King both dominated and

807
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:44,799
Speaker 5: were great, and they just had different Shack's footwork was great.

808
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:46,880
Speaker 5: I think people don't give him enough credit for his footwork.

809
00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:49,440
Speaker 5: That's why he was so good. It's just like a

810
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:53,799
Speaker 5: King was way better defensively. Yeah, uh so, which you know,

811
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Speaker 5: which is why he was able to stop Shack so

812
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:59,640
Speaker 5: much when they played. And you know those championship years, especially.

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00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:04,480
Speaker 1: Keem Wash size is kind of MBI like, okay, you know,

814
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:08,880
Speaker 1: like it's kind of yeah similar, yeah, but now it

815
00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:12,480
Speaker 1: will go yeah yeah, but the body you have issues

816
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:16,839
Speaker 1: with getting injured in that case. All right, you can

817
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:20,319
Speaker 1: make any finals matchup, Jakeith, utilizing all finals teams from

818
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:23,480
Speaker 1: throughout history. What is the matchup you would want to

819
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 1: see more than any other? Oh, for example, ninety six

820
00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:33,080
Speaker 1: Bulls verse eighteen Warriors, ninety six Bulls versus you know,

821
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:36,920
Speaker 1: the heat the heatles. Who are you going with?

822
00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean if the Warriors would have won the

823
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:44,080
Speaker 5: championship this year, this would be the easiest question. It

824
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:46,799
Speaker 5: would be the ninety five ninety six Bulls versus that

825
00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:52,480
Speaker 5: twenty fifteen sixteen Warriors team, the two best regular season

826
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 5: teams in history. But since they biffed the bed, they

827
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 5: are taken out of that ekway. I think I would

828
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:04,680
Speaker 5: still go ninety five ninety six Bulls seventy to ten

829
00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:09,759
Speaker 5: with the ring and oh there are two teams that

830
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:12,279
Speaker 5: I would want to see them against. I think I

831
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:18,320
Speaker 5: will want to see them against that twenty thirteen fourteen

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Speaker 5: Heat team.

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00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:23,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that you get the vers Lebron.

834
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Speaker 5: Get Jordan versus Lebron. You get Jordan versus like I

835
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:30,480
Speaker 5: got something to prove Lebron. Yeah, that would be that

836
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:31,719
Speaker 5: would be a fun matchup.

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Speaker 1: I think that's the right answer.

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00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:35,960
Speaker 5: I think that's the one, Like I guess I would

839
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Speaker 5: go if if it wasn't that, I would go with like, yeah,

840
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:42,719
Speaker 5: those twenty that first KD title with the Warriors first

841
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:44,920
Speaker 5: or second, really to be honest with you, and it

842
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:46,600
Speaker 5: would be, but it would be mostly just out of

843
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:48,759
Speaker 5: pettiness in spite, like I would just want to show

844
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:52,480
Speaker 5: people like, oh, yeah, like that Brandon basketball, like the

845
00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:54,240
Speaker 5: Bulls Brandon basketball was better.

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00:44:54,640 --> 00:44:56,239
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, but.

847
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:59,080
Speaker 5: But as far as like prime teams and like matchups

848
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:01,560
Speaker 5: and everything like that, that I think that heat that

849
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:03,279
Speaker 5: he Bulls would be.

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00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:08,640
Speaker 1: It's fair Bulls. Oh one, Lakers is also very intriguing.

851
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:11,080
Speaker 1: I just I don't want to see the Bulls lose.

852
00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:17,839
Speaker 1: Then having having Shack going against Luke lonely, you know.

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00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:20,640
Speaker 4: I mean Robin, he would go against rob Ye.

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00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:23,359
Speaker 5: I think that would be the match up because Luke

855
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:29,120
Speaker 5: Luke would be barbecue chicken baby.

856
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:32,640
Speaker 4: Although Luke did okay against Jack like.

857
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:35,799
Speaker 5: Look, Luke did like his thing against Shaq like as

858
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:38,719
Speaker 5: well as he could have the Australian brute that he

859
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:40,200
Speaker 5: was right.

860
00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:41,080
Speaker 3: I think he had it right.

861
00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:43,520
Speaker 2: Luke would have been okay, maybe not barbecue chicken trip

862
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:48,000
Speaker 2: on the barbie then Barbie.

863
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:50,920
Speaker 3: Last one for you. Game of the week. You've got

864
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:54,000
Speaker 3: a choice. Friday night there's two different games at.

865
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 2: Bucks at Spurs or Sons at Warriors. Saturday night you

866
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:02,880
Speaker 2: got Lakers at n and then Sunday you got Books

867
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 2: at Nicks. Excuse me, no, you got Grizzlies at Books.

868
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:10,239
Speaker 4: Okay, Lakers. Knicks is in New York.

869
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:15,320
Speaker 5: That is I couldn't And then we'll go on Lakers

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00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:21,279
Speaker 5: Knicks in Madison Square Garden Lebron and MSG and think, uh,

871
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:23,839
Speaker 5: you know that's a hard matchup to that's a hard

872
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Speaker 5: matchup to be as far as storyline and Lebron and

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Speaker 5: think that's the matchup of the week right there.

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Speaker 1: All right, you've chosen correctly on every every question and

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