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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up straight firefam h's me Jason McIntyre. Straight

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Speaker 2: Fire for Monday, May twenty seven. Happy Memorial Day weekend

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Speaker 2: to everybody, and thank you for those who have served.

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Speaker 2: I hope everybody has a safe holiday Monday and enjoys

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Speaker 2: listening to this podcast. I pulled an executive decision on ROB.

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Speaker 2: I was like, listen, I know MAVs Wolves Game three

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Speaker 2: is gonna be good. I don't know that Pacers Celtics

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Speaker 2: Game four on Monday night AKA tonight will be good.

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Speaker 2: So let's just pop a pod out on Monday morning,

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Speaker 2: so there'll be no podcast tomorrow. We'll cover the thrilling

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Speaker 2: MAVs three nothingly. Gosh, it feels listen, you're not you know,

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Speaker 2: we put these predictions out often frequently, You're wrong. Okay,

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Speaker 2: kind of nailed the series, and it feels pretty damn

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Speaker 2: good to watch Luca and Kyrie Cook and they have

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Speaker 2: cooked the number one defense in the NBA in three

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Speaker 2: straight close games. Friday night was a thriller. Luca back

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Speaker 2: over the Stiffel Tower Rudy Gobert and then talking trash

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Speaker 2: to him. Gosh, you had to love that that put

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Speaker 2: him up too. Oh and then in another close game

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Speaker 2: Sunday Night, one oh four all with about five minutes

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Speaker 2: left and Luca and Kyrie took over a fourteen to

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Speaker 2: one run, Minnesota cannot score the basketball. And now the

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Speaker 2: Wolves fall into an O three deficit. And we know

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Speaker 2: the stat teams that fall behind three are now zero

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Speaker 2: and one hundred and fifty four in NBA history, So

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Speaker 2: tall order tonight for the Pacers and they really have

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Speaker 2: no shot. And then I would say a massive, massive

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Speaker 2: issue ahead for the poor Minnesota Timberwolves. Who listen, man,

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Speaker 2: they are coming off that thrilling win over Denver, and

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Speaker 2: I think this throws their franchise into a bit of upheaval.

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Speaker 2: I'll get around to that, but we got to start

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Speaker 2: with the positive because of what Luca and Kyrie have done.

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Speaker 2: So you guys, remember I loved this trade last year

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Speaker 2: and then they went sideways. They could not pull it off.

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Speaker 2: They couldn't even get to the playoffs. They decided let's

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Speaker 2: just tank. And everybody's pointing the finger at Kyrie. He's

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Speaker 2: toxic everywhere. He's been blase blase blase this year. You

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Speaker 2: guys know, I've been all in on the maps. I've

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Speaker 2: been hyping Luca. I've been hyping Kyrie. And it's an

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Speaker 2: interesting situation because Dallas was kind of on the brink

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Speaker 2: with Luca. If you guys really want to get creative

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Speaker 2: and think back for a moment as to Kyrie was

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Speaker 2: like the third chance to build something around Luca and

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Speaker 2: a wingman. They tried Porzingis did not work. They thought

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Speaker 2: they had something with Brunson. They screwed up the offer

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Speaker 2: to him because they didn't think he was worth paying,

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Speaker 2: and then they tried to come in late and be like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: where we going there. He was like, no, I'm not

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Speaker 2: having that. So they're up against it over two pairing

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Speaker 2: Luca with a wingman, and they this is how desperate

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Speaker 2: they were. They had to buy at the bottom of

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Speaker 2: the market on Kyrie Irving absolute rock bottom. Nobody wanted

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Speaker 2: that guy. Well maybe Lebron at La, but it went

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Speaker 2: so poorly for him in Brooklyn, firing coaches seeking a trade.

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Speaker 2: I don't need to rehash the burning stage in the

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Speaker 2: locker room and James Harden being like, what the hell

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Speaker 2: did I just get myself into? Bottom line like it

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Speaker 2: was ugly. Nobody wanted Kyrie Irving. He was toxic, and

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Speaker 2: the MAVs took a chance. And you know, sometimes you

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Speaker 2: roll the dice and you everything just has just come

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Speaker 2: up perfect for Dallas. I mean, even when they had

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Speaker 2: to tank at the end of last year, remember that

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Speaker 2: they ended up getting Derek Lively. Now, he did suffer

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Speaker 2: what looked like they call it a neck injury. Folks,

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Speaker 2: there's a concussion, for sure. You got him. You saw it.

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Speaker 2: Lively get up, glassy eyed. He couldn't even walk off

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Speaker 2: the cord. He had to get helped off. That was ugly.

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Speaker 2: My guess is he doesn't play in Game four, and

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Speaker 2: if Minnesota had pulled it off and won Game three,

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Speaker 2: I think it's series on because no Lively. And I'm

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Speaker 2: just say you guys have heard the podcast. Derek Lively

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Speaker 2: has been instrumental in this entire postseason. But fun fact,

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Speaker 2: through two and a half games, he has not missed

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Speaker 2: a shot in the series, perfect from the field, Like

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Speaker 2: that's all he does is dunk. And that leads me

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Speaker 2: to my next point. This Dallas Mavericks offense. Watching them,

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Speaker 2: to keep just be glued to watching him go to work.

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Speaker 2: I am of the belief that this is the most fun, interesting,

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Speaker 2: exciting NBA team since the Kat Curry Warriors twenty seventeen,

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Speaker 2: twenty eighteen, and I went through the list of teams

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Speaker 2: Lakers bubble run. The Lakers defense was awesome, but that

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Speaker 2: it's not like that Raptors team where that Lakers team

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Speaker 2: was super amazing. Oh my gosh, the game's on, I

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Speaker 2: gotta watch it. Milwaukee Bucks in twenty one, like they

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Speaker 2: were good, but remember they were getting run out of

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Speaker 2: the gym by the Brooklyn Nets, and then Kevin Durant's

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Speaker 2: toe was on the line. You know, it was a

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Speaker 2: you had the Warriors in Curry in twenty two where

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Speaker 2: the Andrew Wiggins Revival series, and obviously watching Curry's amazing,

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Speaker 2: He's my favorite player in NBA history. And then last

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Speaker 2: year you had Denver and Jokich, which was kind of

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Speaker 2: Denver with Jamal Murray's fun and Jokic is very good,

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Speaker 2: but they're not like, oh my gosh, this team's fascinating

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Speaker 2: the MAVs for my money, Kyrie is. I mean, you

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Speaker 2: wish I had the exact number, but they flashed on

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Speaker 2: the screen last night Alle Oops in the playoffs and

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Speaker 2: the Mavericks had like forty five and then set number

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Speaker 2: two team had like nine. They run what seems basic

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Speaker 2: and stoppable, right, Luca getting in a lane and if

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Speaker 2: you commit two to him, he's gonna just throw it

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Speaker 2: in the air, and Gafford and Lively are gonna just

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Speaker 2: I mean, Jay McDaniels is playing great defense and Luca's

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Speaker 2: just hitting impossible shots over him, and it's it's almost

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Speaker 2: like you start to expect him to maybe miss some

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Speaker 2: shot a combined Luke and Kyrie twenty two for forty

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Speaker 2: against the number one defense in the NBA. In Game three,

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Speaker 2: the Mavericks themselves fifty five percent from the field, fifty

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Speaker 2: were like, Okay, we're gonna blitz Luca. Well, what happened

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Speaker 2: Josh Green hit a three, Kyrie Irving hit three of them.

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Speaker 2: The ball rotation is perfect and it's impossible to stop.

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Speaker 2: Remember they didn't blitz him in the first two games.

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Speaker 2: What happened. Luca got in the lane, got twos, killed

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Speaker 2: I trust our guys and we'll rotate it around and

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Speaker 2: we'll get threes. And the threes are popping. So then

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Speaker 2: what do you do? What do you do? You can't

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Speaker 2: really stop them, so you have to keep up offensively.

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Speaker 2: At in the third quarter with what after Lively went down,

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Speaker 2: here comes Minnesota. Anthony Edwards is gonna wake him up.

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Speaker 2: And then in the fourth quarter Carl Anthony Towns could

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Speaker 2: has had his struggles. Carl Anthony Towns through three games

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Speaker 2: twenty seven percent shooting thirteen percent from three. He has

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Speaker 2: won for his last thirteen on three pointers. That's you know,

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Speaker 2: winning any games like that. And it's weird because when

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Speaker 2: If you remember, he was very good in Game one

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Speaker 2: And then in game seven, Towns was everywhere. Twenty three

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Speaker 2: want to go overboard with proclamations. This team took down Denver,

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Speaker 2: for the owner to write a big fat luxury tax check.

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Speaker 2: When you're in the finals, you win a title, you

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Speaker 2: we just got smoked by Dallas. Like, I don't know

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Speaker 2: Memphis is going to be back next year. Lakers, they're

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Speaker 2: not going anywhere. I don't know that the Minnesota is

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Speaker 2: try to bring everybody back. Okay, see, looks like they're

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Speaker 2: a guy away. I mean, hell, okay, see play Dallas Tougher. No,

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Speaker 2: I mean seriously, so you gotta if you're the owner,

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Speaker 2: you're like, geez, I'm right in a big huge luxury

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Speaker 2: tax checks luxury tax check. Maybe we have to think

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Speaker 2: don't know if that makes sense, but you do need

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Speaker 2: a clear number two, and Towns is just too hit

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Speaker 2: and miss for me. Now, Garland might be an overweighted

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Speaker 2: The more I look at this series, Dallas against Boston,

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Speaker 2: see had lou Dort, Who's an All defensive team kind

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Speaker 2: the Mavericks flew in a chef so Kyrie could get

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Speaker 2: all his meals. They made sure he was in one

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Speaker 2: Wouldn't the Nets do that? Uh huh, nothing. Hey, Kyrie,

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Speaker 2: oh four, all MAVs tie it up, and then they

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Speaker 2: see instantly, Carl Anthony, I'm sorry not Carlington Town's Anthony

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Speaker 2: The game was great, the WNBA game, but I've obviously

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Speaker 2: Game two against Minnesota, eight points in twelve minutes. He

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Speaker 2: Game three he had seven points. I listen, he's young.

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Speaker 2: years if he continues. Now, if this stuff goes to

420
00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:50,000
Speaker 2: his head, a little success. But he's six ' three, bouncy, quick,

421
00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:53,760
Speaker 2: good handle. You could just see he's clearly studied a

422
00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:56,360
Speaker 2: lot of Kyrie Irving. I'm just saying the MAVs man.

423
00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:58,160
Speaker 2: And oh, by the way, they're doing all this without

424
00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:02,320
Speaker 2: Maxi Kleeber, who is I believe, a very nice piece

425
00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:06,760
Speaker 2: to that Dallas offense. Essentially, the Mavericks are just that

426
00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:10,560
Speaker 2: trade deadline helped them so much, and now they're one

427
00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:13,560
Speaker 2: win away from the finals. I am of the opinion

428
00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:15,840
Speaker 2: that they now are are the team to beat. I

429
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:17,679
Speaker 2: know a lot of people like the Celtics. I get that.

430
00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:20,160
Speaker 2: That's fine. I even like the young kid they got

431
00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:24,640
Speaker 2: omax O Maax prosper from Marquette I thought he would

432
00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:26,919
Speaker 2: go back to Marquette and they would contend for the title.

433
00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:30,320
Speaker 2: He goes to the NBA and MAVs take him and

434
00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:32,040
Speaker 2: I don't I think it was outside the lot. Maybe

435
00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:33,840
Speaker 2: the second round, I don't know, but whatever it is,

436
00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:36,560
Speaker 2: they got Omax and he's a nice little young piece.

437
00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:39,639
Speaker 2: Another one of these long guys, because guess what, they're

438
00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:44,639
Speaker 2: probably gonna get beat out on a Derek Jones contract

439
00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:48,040
Speaker 2: because he is not making any money. And oh, by

440
00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:50,560
Speaker 2: the way, if it reminds you of Bruce Brown from

441
00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:54,280
Speaker 2: last year with Denver, Denver sorely miss Bruce Brown coming

442
00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:57,920
Speaker 2: off the bench and providing a pop, offensively, defensively. Remember

443
00:23:57,920 --> 00:23:59,680
Speaker 2: he could guard up, He could guard like four positions,

444
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:03,240
Speaker 2: and they missed him. So Derek Jones Junior is gonna

445
00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:05,680
Speaker 2: get paid by somebody. I don't expect him to take

446
00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:09,760
Speaker 2: a pay cut to stay in Dallas. Well, I'm sorry,

447
00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:12,320
Speaker 2: not a pay cut, not give Dallas a hometown discount.

448
00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:15,760
Speaker 2: That's certainly not gonna happen. He's only twenty seven six

449
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:20,680
Speaker 2: six two ten, mostly been just a dunker, but Dallas

450
00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:26,280
Speaker 2: clearly unlocked this year the best of Derek Jones Junior,

451
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:29,000
Speaker 2: who has bounced around Holy cal So last year. He

452
00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:32,400
Speaker 2: was in Chicago before that, Portland before that, Miami before that, Phoenix.

453
00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:35,639
Speaker 2: And if you look at the three point shooting again,

454
00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:39,560
Speaker 2: he's been like a twenty seven thirty twenty one, slowly

455
00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:43,080
Speaker 2: inching up this year. Thirty four percent in the regular

456
00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:47,399
Speaker 2: season shooting the three. What's Derek Jones Junior doing in

457
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:52,159
Speaker 2: the playoffs shooting the three? Oh yeah, thirty three percent?

458
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:56,119
Speaker 2: Not bad. But then you look even closer and he

459
00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:58,520
Speaker 2: has really been I don't want to say on fire

460
00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:01,960
Speaker 2: because he's not shooting that many, but three for three

461
00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:04,560
Speaker 2: in the game three win and what happened in the

462
00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:08,480
Speaker 2: game Yeah. Game six against Okasee, four for six from deep.

463
00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:10,960
Speaker 2: Game five against Okasee, must win on the road at

464
00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:14,240
Speaker 2: two to two, three for five from deep. I'm telling you, man,

465
00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:17,479
Speaker 2: the kid is a baller. He is athletic as hell.

466
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:19,680
Speaker 2: Easy to like him. Dallas has really built nice. I

467
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:22,600
Speaker 2: think the MAVs future is bright. I will be picking

468
00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:27,160
Speaker 2: them for sure. To beat the Celtics. I'm the way

469
00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:29,560
Speaker 2: the Pacers should have won Game three, I guess I

470
00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:31,479
Speaker 2: guess we could talk about that for a quick second.

471
00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:36,000
Speaker 2: They gave up an absurd run to end the game.

472
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:40,760
Speaker 2: My guy Jason Tatum went off and it was just

473
00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:43,560
Speaker 2: a spectacular performance by Tatum. But let me guess he's

474
00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:47,040
Speaker 2: not that good. Another thirty six, ten and eight, and

475
00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:48,840
Speaker 2: I think he had like four assists in the fourth

476
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:52,080
Speaker 2: quarter behind the back dime to Al Horford in the corner.

477
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:59,560
Speaker 2: Horford seven threes, seven threes, and the Celtics stormed back

478
00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:01,520
Speaker 2: with a thirty three to twenty one win in the

479
00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:04,720
Speaker 2: fourth quarter, take down Indy, and they basically ended their

480
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 2: season indyt INDI got good performances from basically everyone. They

481
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:16,120
Speaker 2: just couldn't shoot the three. Outside of Nemhard hitting four

482
00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:18,000
Speaker 2: to seven from deep. The rest of the team was

483
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:21,680
Speaker 2: one of fifteen on three pointers, and that one was

484
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:24,960
Speaker 2: from t J McConnell. Obi Toppen couldn't do it. Ben Sheppard,

485
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,560
Speaker 2: who they started for Halliburton, couldn't do it. Miles Turner no.

486
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:30,080
Speaker 2: So if they hit a couple threes, they probably win

487
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:32,480
Speaker 2: that game. But that's a tough one and they probably

488
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:35,920
Speaker 2: get bounced tonight at home. I know Carlos is trying

489
00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:37,959
Speaker 2: to fire up the troops and who knows, maybe they

490
00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 2: show up. But if Halliburton doesn't play I just don't

491
00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:42,520
Speaker 2: see how you can how you could possibly take Indy.

492
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,000
Speaker 2: They had their chance to extend the series. They couldn't

493
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:49,119
Speaker 2: do it. Jason Tatum's just too good. The Tatum hate

494
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,160
Speaker 2: is weird. I'm not going to dive into it because

495
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:55,200
Speaker 2: guess what. The NBA Finals don't start until June sixth,

496
00:26:56,040 --> 00:27:00,280
Speaker 2: and there's a chance that the playoffs are done. The

497
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:03,720
Speaker 2: conference finals are done by Tuesday night to twenty eighth,

498
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:10,359
Speaker 2: So we're looking at a week of nothing. Oh my gosh,

499
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 2: eight days of zero NBA. That's just brutal. Sorry, guys.

500
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:17,199
Speaker 2: I don't know what we'll do content wise, maybe some

501
00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:19,679
Speaker 2: NBA draft and I don't know what the appetite is

502
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,720
Speaker 2: for that, but that's where you need the NBA storylines.

503
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:25,920
Speaker 2: Donovan Mitchell, What's what's the word? Paul George, what do

504
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 2: you got? You're gonna stay? You take a little less

505
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:32,720
Speaker 2: like Hawaii? I mean, Lakers coaching search is on. It

506
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 2: seems like it's JJ Reddix to lose. I don't know,

507
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 2: does something happen? Does Denver get a little feisty? I

508
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 2: was asking somebody, how do the how does the Nuggets

509
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:45,199
Speaker 2: get better than they're like? Trade Michael Porter Junior. I

510
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,600
Speaker 2: was like, oh wow, that'd be bold. I don't know

511
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:52,920
Speaker 2: what Porter's like a great three or four? Right, it's Jokich,

512
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:58,760
Speaker 2: Murray and then Gordon or MPJ. I don't know what's

513
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:03,120
Speaker 2: he gonna do, go to Orlando and the three? Maybe

514
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 2: I have no idea, Like the NBA always comes up

515
00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 2: with these great storylines, but I will I guess I

516
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 2: can wrap with this. It does make me wonder if

517
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 2: these new these new contracts, these new big money deals,

518
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:23,359
Speaker 2: are they gonna end up preventing super teams and offseason movement,

519
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:25,399
Speaker 2: which is what the league wants. You know, when you

520
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:29,800
Speaker 2: see Sga now he made All NBA his fourth year

521
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 2: of his new deal, he's he's gonna make like eighty

522
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:36,359
Speaker 2: one million dollars if he stays in OKAC eighty one mili.

523
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:40,560
Speaker 2: You think he's turning that down one season making eighty

524
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 2: one million dollars.

525
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 1: It's crazy.

526
00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:45,240
Speaker 2: Sga really really good. I don't think he's a top

527
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 2: five planner in the league. He's in the five to

528
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:51,080
Speaker 2: ten range. But the incentive for him to stay his

529
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 2: massive they want to do this. Anthony Edwards is gonna

530
00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:56,120
Speaker 2: be in the same boat, probably making even more I

531
00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:59,320
Speaker 2: don't know, but NBA doesn't want these guys ganging up,

532
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:01,200
Speaker 2: which I think kind of stinks because I think the

533
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:03,240
Speaker 2: ganging up is fun. So what they got to do

534
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 2: now is have the old heads who aren't going to

535
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 2: be making all that massive money because they're on like

536
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:11,320
Speaker 2: their second, third, fourth, fifth team. Those are the guys

537
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:14,120
Speaker 2: who have to move around on the edges, like Kevin Durant,

538
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 2: Donovan Mitchell. I don't want to say Lebron because I

539
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 2: don't think he's going anywhere, but that like Paul George.

540
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:22,560
Speaker 2: Those are the guys who can move and they will

541
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:25,480
Speaker 2: add some spice and some pop to the to the offseason,

542
00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:29,320
Speaker 2: which I think is going to start to get downplayed

543
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 2: just a little bit. The other name I heard with

544
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:34,600
Speaker 2: Pascal Siakam. Has he played so well with Indy that

545
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:39,200
Speaker 2: somebody I don't think he fits with Orlando, but does

546
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 2: someone La Clippers, seventy six ers. Just somebody say, you

547
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 2: know what, we want to offer Siacam everything, and it's

548
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 2: a more attractive spot than Indy. I don't know how.

549
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 2: I don't know the situation for Siakam, but it's always

550
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 2: always somebody in the NBA offseason.

551
00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:59,800
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552
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554
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Speaker 2: All right, real quick, Yeah, So I went to the

555
00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:16,240
Speaker 2: Kaitlin Clark U LA Sparks game on Friday night with

556
00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:22,040
Speaker 2: the fam nice little sushi joint over there by Crypto,

557
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:25,880
Speaker 2: and it was it was awesome, awesome scene. Caitlin Clark

558
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 2: essentially got a standing ovation from the crowd and a

559
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,920
Speaker 2: lot of Iowa jerseys. Caitlin Clark missed a ton of

560
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:37,040
Speaker 2: shots early, couldn't really I think she had won three

561
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 2: maybe and then missed like eight in a row or something,

562
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:42,280
Speaker 2: or maybe she didn't make any threes, and then you

563
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:44,640
Speaker 2: know it's a close game. The Fever haven't won any games,

564
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, Kaitlin Clark hits two unbelievable

565
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:50,680
Speaker 2: step backs in the final like two thirty, and the

566
00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:54,600
Speaker 2: crowd just exploded. And listen, the WNBA crowd is totally

567
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:57,080
Speaker 2: different than an NBA crowd. And I'm not just talking

568
00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:59,400
Speaker 2: from like the makeup of the of the people. I'm

569
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:02,280
Speaker 2: just talking about the vibe, Like I don't care who

570
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 2: you are if you come into crypto. They're not cheering

571
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 2: for you. When you hit great shots. Everybody sparks fans obviously,

572
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 2: Fever fans, mostly Gitlin Clark fans. Everybody was cheering for her,

573
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 2: which she hit those big time shots. Everyone it was crazy,

574
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:20,720
Speaker 2: and I a couple of people did come up to me.

575
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:23,640
Speaker 2: I had an interesting moment after the game. This was

576
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:26,160
Speaker 2: a first ever. So you know, we walk out, I'm

577
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 2: wearing a hat, walk out with the fam, and this

578
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 2: guy goes j Mack, So you know, I'm walking with

579
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 2: the family and the family hears it and they're all like, ahha, Dad,

580
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:41,760
Speaker 2: somebody noticed you. And this guy goes, you're being a

581
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 2: little disrespectful to Kyrie. And at that point I'm like, oh, well,

582
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:48,880
Speaker 2: I'm rooting MAVs. They've won me some money in the playoffs.

583
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 2: Take it easy. And he was like down the stairs

584
00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 2: and then he said you've been disrespectful to Cam Newton too,

585
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:58,800
Speaker 2: and I was like, that's kind of odd. And I

586
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:01,240
Speaker 2: don't know if my family heard that, but I think

587
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 2: the wife goes, was he heckling you? I was like, it's possible.

588
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 2: I don't. And you're outside of crypto. There's a lot

589
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 2: of people people selling hot dogs. It's crowded, so we

590
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:14,080
Speaker 2: walk like half a block to the stoplight at the

591
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:17,160
Speaker 2: block of Crypto and again there's tons of people there.

592
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 2: I have already forgotten about this guy, you know. I'm

593
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 2: like looking at the hot dog vendors. The t shirts

594
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:23,959
Speaker 2: are selling Kobe's shirts and tailor Swift whatever the shirts are.

595
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 2: And this guy like comes up again and he's like, yeah,

596
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 2: you were mad disrespectful to Cam Newton. And he's like

597
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:33,600
Speaker 2: not right in my face. But I was like, I

598
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:37,680
Speaker 2: look over. He's a portly fellow and by by himself.

599
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:42,600
Speaker 2: I didn't see anybody with him. But he's like why why,

600
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 2: why you? Why do you think Dak is better? You're

601
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 2: so wrong. Dak is not better than Cam Newton. Again,

602
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 2: this was a take I had like five months ago.

603
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 2: It must have hit a nerve with this guy. And

604
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, you think Cam's better. He's like,

605
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 2: I know Cam's better. I was like cool, and my

606
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 2: son at this point is like what is he talking about?

607
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:03,520
Speaker 2: And then the light turns and we walk across, and

608
00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 2: at this point I'm like, so this guy followed me

609
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 2: half a block by himself. He might have been a

610
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 2: supporting event solo to ask me about Kyrie Irving and

611
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:17,680
Speaker 2: Cam Newton. That is weird. And at that point I'm like, hm,

612
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:19,200
Speaker 2: do I look over his shoulder to see if he's

613
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:21,320
Speaker 2: there again? I mean, there's a lot of people around,

614
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:24,240
Speaker 2: and I did not feel threatened. I did not have

615
00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 2: a weapon on me of any kind, not that you care,

616
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:29,560
Speaker 2: but it was weird. My wife's like, oh my gosh,

617
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:31,480
Speaker 2: is that the first heeckler you've ever had? She was

618
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 2: like laughing about it. My daughter, I don't think she

619
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 2: was paying attention, and my son was just like, so, Dad,

620
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:39,320
Speaker 2: tell me about this Dak Kim Newton thing? Is this

621
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 2: guy right? So then I have to explain to him.

622
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 2: Cam Newton won an MVP and went to a super

623
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 2: Bowl and then he basically was never that good again.

624
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 2: He was like a highlight quarterback. But the numbers, Dak

625
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 2: has him in the numbers, and Dak's got the consistency

626
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 2: and Cam was out of league at thirty one and

627
00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 2: Dak is still chugging along and was just like MVP

628
00:33:56,960 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 2: runner up. He's like, wait, you know all this? I

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Speaker 2: was like, this is this is my job to know this.

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Speaker 2: He's like, well, why did that guy think Cam was better.

631
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,839
Speaker 2: I was like, you know, the same way that I'm

632
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 2: a huge Steff Curry fan, and anytime someone tries to

633
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 2: diminish Curry, I'll defend them. If you're a Cam Newton fan,

634
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:17,400
Speaker 2: you're like all in and you'll like defend them to

635
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:20,000
Speaker 2: the end of the earth. But the weirdest part was,

636
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:22,760
Speaker 2: I mean, this isn't like something I said this week.

637
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 2: This is like January. It's like five months ago, and

638
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:29,759
Speaker 2: this guy had harbored it. Now. I'm sure some of

639
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:31,360
Speaker 2: you out there are listening like, oh damn, Jay, you

640
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:34,080
Speaker 2: gotta be careful. And I'll just say this, this is

641
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:37,520
Speaker 2: why Cowherd doesn't go to sporting events. You know, We've

642
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:39,239
Speaker 2: joked around like, hey, come to this game with me,

643
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:41,480
Speaker 2: and he's like, dude, I can't go to these games.

644
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:45,520
Speaker 2: I walk like thirty steps, like people want photos and

645
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:47,400
Speaker 2: all this stuff. And I'm like, that's a fair point.

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00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 2: I mean, we're sitting in our seats and this guy

647
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:53,480
Speaker 2: walks up the island and he's like, j Mac great

648
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 2: stuff on the show. You know, my kids start cracking

649
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:59,839
Speaker 2: up at this, just just some random guy. And then

650
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:03,960
Speaker 2: another guy comes up and he's like he asked something

651
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 2: I forget what it was, but he's like, where do

652
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:09,880
Speaker 2: you think Paul George is going on? I mean again,

653
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:14,120
Speaker 2: super random, just with the fam and they're hearing all

654
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 2: this and they think it's funny, and it is kind

655
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:19,200
Speaker 2: of funny sometimes, but it was just it definitely felt

656
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:22,360
Speaker 2: odd that this quote unquote Heckler was followed me a

657
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:24,759
Speaker 2: half a block to bring up a Cam Newton take

658
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:27,080
Speaker 2: for five months ago. I was just I gotta say

659
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:30,040
Speaker 2: that was odd. But it wasn't like combative. I don't

660
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Speaker 2: think he cursed at me. I haven't thought about like

661
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:35,799
Speaker 2: getting in like a back and forth with him on

662
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:38,600
Speaker 2: the on the merits of Cam Newton versus Dak Prescott.

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Speaker 2: But I thought I handled it okay. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I was just like, yeah, all right, cool, take it easy.

665
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 2: I just went about my business. Luckily I wasn't like

666
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:50,880
Speaker 2: with my buddies and had been drinking, because then I

667
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 2: might have been a smart ass. And who knows what

668
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:59,200
Speaker 2: happens after that. Anyways, that was my interesting moment from

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00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:02,399
Speaker 2: where that we could act. I went to a kid's

670
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 2: birthday party on the beach, and of course a bunch

671
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:06,319
Speaker 2: of dad's there. We organized like a volleyball game and

672
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 2: your boy tried to be a hero and I tried

673
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:11,560
Speaker 2: to go up for a block of a guy's spike

674
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 2: and I end up landing on his foot and turning

675
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:18,400
Speaker 2: my ankle and it hurts so bad, and I was

676
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:21,400
Speaker 2: like in the sand, how could this happen? So basically

677
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:24,759
Speaker 2: all of Sunday, I was just icing my ankle, had

678
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 2: it in the brace, and like, I got a big

679
00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 2: game on Thursday. We're playing mosgov and we could be

680
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 2: in trouble because mosgof now has a teammate who's just

681
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 2: an absolute baller and he just just added to the

682
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:38,719
Speaker 2: league this week. I mean, he's a super nice guy.

683
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:41,800
Speaker 2: He started to train with NBA players, he could easily

684
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 2: be playing internationally. He's a super friendly guy. You guys

685
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:49,799
Speaker 2: don't care. And now I'm rambling. But first season of

686
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:54,799
Speaker 2: this league, he was like the commissioner's wingman, being like

687
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:57,480
Speaker 2: the scorekeeper. And I would see him there and you know,

688
00:36:57,480 --> 00:36:59,239
Speaker 2: I would talk, but I didn't, like, you know, get

689
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:02,279
Speaker 2: in conversations with him or anything. And I had no

690
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:05,360
Speaker 2: clue that this guy who was like a scorekeeper was

691
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:08,640
Speaker 2: the best basketball player in the gym. He is freaking tremendous,

692
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:11,800
Speaker 2: like six ' three. He has a massive Instagram following.

693
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 2: I had no clue about any of this, and then

694
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:17,200
Speaker 2: one of my guys after the season goes, hey, we

695
00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:19,000
Speaker 2: should try to pick up Trade next season. I was like,

696
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 2: who the hell's Trey is? Like? Trade? You got to

697
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:22,799
Speaker 2: look him up? So I look him up on IG

698
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:24,719
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, Mike Trey Jones. You guys can look

699
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:26,279
Speaker 2: him up. He's got like, I don't know, two three

700
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:30,919
Speaker 2: hundred thousand followers and he's just insanely talented and super

701
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 2: nice guy. So now I've seen him more. He's worked

702
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:34,719
Speaker 2: out with some NBA guys, but I won't say who

703
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 2: because he's He's given me some good intel. Familiar with that.

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Speaker 2: But anyways, listen summers here guys. Hope everybody enjoys their

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Speaker 2: Memorial Day Monday. Back on Wednesday, where we will start

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Speaker 2: to get creative with the podcast since it looks like

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Speaker 2: the NBA Playoffs are headed to the finals.