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Speaker 1: Fire fan, It's me Jason McIntyre, Straight Fire for Tuesday, June,

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Speaker 1: and I gotta admit I'm a little excited this morning,

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Speaker 1: So obviously I'm very excited that the Warriors are now

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Speaker 1: one win away from another title for what I've called

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Speaker 1: the greatest dynasty. And y'all have hated me saying that

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Speaker 1: hated it. I didn't like it. Bulls fans upset, Lakers

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Speaker 1: is what's so spicy about Game six on I believe

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Speaker 1: it is Thursday and night. If the Warriors captured the title,

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Speaker 1: they will have one before Kevin Durant, with Kevin Durant,

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Speaker 1: and after Kevin Durant, and folks, to me, that is

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Speaker 1: Boston just looks like a tired, spent team. Seven game

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Speaker 1: end of that. And now against a team pushing tempo,

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Speaker 1: like a like what a napkin? They folded like a napkin,

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Speaker 1: He's went through it. Guys. Listen, I'm a Tatum guy.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to defend him forever. He now has the

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Speaker 1: most turnovers in one NBA playoff postseason in the history

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Speaker 1: had a terrible game after he had forty three in

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Speaker 1: Game four. Yes I did call that game. Michael Jordan's like,

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Speaker 1: yes it was. And you know what, when you carry

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Speaker 1: gonna come back with a clunker because they're gonna hound

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Speaker 1: you and these Celtics, and this became like a little

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Speaker 1: meme on social media during the game last night, the

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Speaker 1: I am legitimately stunned that they could pull this off.

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Speaker 1: Clay over and listen. I don't want to brag. This

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Speaker 1: When you say it's not a brag, it as a brag.

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Speaker 1: Curry gave the ball up. Eight assists is high in

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Speaker 1: the series. Who benefited well. Clay Thompson had twenty one.

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Speaker 1: Andrew Wiggins, the other guy we mentioned, had twenty six

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Speaker 1: will say shortly the Mitten with fifteen and then my guy,

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Speaker 1: Jordan's Pool, who's been a cash cow for me in

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Speaker 1: anything prop side total in the game was Warriors third quarter.

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Speaker 1: Why because the Warriors have dominated the third quarter all series.

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Speaker 1: They've dominated at all postseason. Never ever, guys, jump on translate,

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Speaker 1: then start the fourth quarter hot and they were able

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Speaker 1: Thirty four minutes. He had four points in four turnovers.

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Speaker 1: the big lead at the time. Everybody's bagging on too,

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Speaker 1: Andrew Wiggins. He can't go to the NBA. Come on,

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Speaker 1: Can't beat Stanford. If you're wondering who Stanford had, it

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Speaker 1: Breakers my team down under. Um, he's had a storied

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Speaker 1: they were like an okay Stanford team, and Wiggins did

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Speaker 1: nothing four points of four turnovers. Goes number one and

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Speaker 1: number one, and this I I don't know if it

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Speaker 1: hurt Andrew Wiggins. I don't know if anybody's ever asked

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Speaker 1: him about this. I'm sure they have, but recently would

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Speaker 1: be nice. Hey, Andrew, how did you feel when you

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Speaker 1: read Lebron's letter to Cleveland in Sports Illustrated, You know,

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Speaker 1: the one where he named all these players he's excited

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Speaker 1: to play with, like Tristan Thompson, Dion Waiters. I'm not

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Speaker 1: kidding about this one. Anderson Verajo verso sorry Brazilian and

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Speaker 1: number one pick a week before, maybe ten days whatever

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Speaker 1: Andrew Wiggins, and that was a sign that Andrew Wiggins

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Speaker 1: where you know instantly he's a scoring machine. He plays

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but he was putting up to went

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Speaker 1: They lost in five games. And Andrew Wiggins was like

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Speaker 1: Kevin Durant. It always comes back to Durant. Right when

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Speaker 1: Durant leaves Golden State, he said, I'll do a sign

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Speaker 1: and trade to Brooklyn. Brooklyn had D'Angelo Russell. The Warriors

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Speaker 1: and the Warriors get Andrew Wiggins. Bing bang boom. The

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Speaker 1: and folks, Andrew Wiggins, He's not gonna win the MVP.

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Speaker 1: Just stop with this silliness. He has had two straight

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Speaker 1: tremendous games, but the only reason they're here because they

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Speaker 1: could have easily lost four game four if not for Curry.

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Speaker 1: I love these rebirths, right, you know, guys go somewhere,

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Speaker 1: carry a team. He's in a perfect role now. He's

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Speaker 1: actually been their second best player. Better than Clay, better

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Speaker 1: Draymond a quick shout. Draymond Green kind of turned it around.

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Speaker 1: And it was at that point, Rob, that I got

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Speaker 1: I would be rooting for your Warriors if they did

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Speaker 1: not have Draymond, Like, nobody likes this guy. Fox Sports

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Speaker 1: want him on the Lakers? Absolutely? Not that that's a

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Speaker 1: terrible question for you to ask me right now. Um,

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Speaker 1: has earned himself zero fans in these finals. You know

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Speaker 1: what's funny is there were times throughout the game, I

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Speaker 1: rather have Julius Randall than Andrew Wiggins. Wait a minute,

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Speaker 1: You would rather have Julius Randall than Andrew Well, what

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Speaker 1: the last two games. Um I had the numbers share.

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Speaker 1: Let me bring it up for you again one more time.

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Speaker 1: And that's not, you know, necessarily Julie's Randalls's game. But

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Speaker 1: it's perfect for the Golden State Warriors because Steph Curry,

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Speaker 1: And it's just wild that that trade which ultimately led

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Speaker 1: I'm a Kevin Durant fan. I'm not taking anything away

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Speaker 1: I don't think you guys totally grasp what life is

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Speaker 1: tell someone who's been on social media for eighteen years

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Speaker 1: But when you can get a bunch of other guys,

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Speaker 1: how many guys they having double figures? There? One, two,

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Speaker 1: even counting that. Like Derrick White is a turnstyle on

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Speaker 1: guess what, They've been better on the road than they

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Speaker 1: games like that's punctured. Now that's over. Could they lose

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Speaker 1: And if that's there's a great like the Boston comeback.

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Speaker 1: So they start the game with twelve miss threes and

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Speaker 1: were able to counter everything. I mean, Looney has come

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Speaker 1: better team, Rob. The last two games have flipped that.

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Speaker 1: Do you think Boston's a better team right now? I

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Speaker 1: don't see it. Well, let let me say this. There

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Speaker 1: am my opinion, looked better for most of those three games.

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Speaker 1: frustrating teams to root for because when yeah, when they're

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Speaker 1: goes back to Tatum and his now being the most

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Speaker 1: You have five turnovers. Marcus Smart, not a two point guard,

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Speaker 1: They had eighteen turnovers. I mean, it's weird because they

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Speaker 1: the turnovers, the Warriors got thirteen more shots, thirteen more

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Speaker 1: how does that change? Like, I can't, I can't control

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm I've been been told for so long is

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Speaker 1: Andrew Wiggins, Steph Curry? Oh? For seventeen on threes? Wow?

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Speaker 1: And they won by ten. I mean that's what happens

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Speaker 1: game that they kind of we're clean with it was

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Speaker 1: in game three, which surprised Surprize. They won by sixteen.

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Speaker 1: They got they had four turnovers combined. Game two they

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Speaker 1: had six, Game one they had six. And it's like

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Speaker 1: those two guys, I don't know if it's tatum shoulder,

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Speaker 1: if that's might be what's bothering him, But when he

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Speaker 1: goes into the paint, he's he's almost looked like he's

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Speaker 1: afraid to go into contact. So he's jumping away from

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Speaker 1: a lot of these baskets where he's going. So it

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Speaker 1: leads him to either throwing the ball away because he's

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Speaker 1: trying to kick it out, or to take a wild shot.

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Speaker 1: Now he was making some of them early last night.

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Speaker 1: I didn't really work out, but we're having problems. But

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Speaker 1: Jalen Brown, to your point, I don't know if he

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Speaker 1: can dribble like like and it's I mean, I thought

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Speaker 1: I'm being like kind of facetious, you know, but when

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Speaker 1: he drives to the basket, I don't know if he

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Speaker 1: has small hands. I don't know if he just doesn't

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Speaker 1: have a good grip on the ball when he's going,

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Speaker 1: you know, with his left hand or whatever it is.

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Speaker 1: But I see him lose the ball in traffic. I

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Speaker 1: want to say, like half the time, whether it's a

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Speaker 1: turnover or not, it gets slapped out of his hand

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Speaker 1: and he has to regroup or it's slapped out of

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Speaker 1: his hand and then it's a turnover. And I I

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Speaker 1: just don't understand how a team that can be arguably

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Speaker 1: or statistically at least the best team in NBA history

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Speaker 1: for three months of the season, who can mow through

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Speaker 1: Kevin Duran and Kyrie Irving in Round one the way

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Speaker 1: they did, and and have games like against Milwaukee, you know,

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Speaker 1: even in this Finals, where they look like there's nobody

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Speaker 1: who can touch them when they're all when they're clicking,

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Speaker 1: and then follow that up with performances like we had

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Speaker 1: last night where it's like you're lucky to be on

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Speaker 1: the same floor with these guys, because I don't think

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Speaker 1: goldst they played well at all. They didn't a bad game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and and and they just you never even even when

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Speaker 1: the game when Boston took the lead lay in the

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Speaker 1: third quarter, I never got the feeling that Boston was

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Speaker 1: actually gonna finish it off. Fox Sports Radio has the

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Speaker 1: listen live. It's weird you say that because back in

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Speaker 1: Game four, Marcus Smart makes a three with five eighteen

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Speaker 1: left Game four, Boston up. They were five minutes away

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Speaker 1: from being up three one, and the series has just

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Speaker 1: completely flipped since that moment. And I know some people

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Speaker 1: are gonna blame the refs, and there's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: lot of barking about the refs. I didn't think the

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Speaker 1: refs were great, but again, Boston shot sixteen more free throws.

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Speaker 1: And the one turnover stat that you'll see everywhere today

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Speaker 1: is in the playoffs, when Boston has sixteen or more turnovers,

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Speaker 1: they are one in seven under sixteen turnovers and two

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Speaker 1: So take care of the ball. They win because they

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Speaker 1: can play defense and they're not scrambling back otherwise it

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Speaker 1: gets kind of ugly. Um, I guess Robbi, I would

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Speaker 1: close with Wiggins. How did the When you look look

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Speaker 1: at the NBA landscape, you're like, man, how on earth

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Speaker 1: did the Warriors get a former number one pick who

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Speaker 1: is having a great postseason. He's a very very good, strong,

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Speaker 1: exceptional whatever you want to use. How on earth did

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Speaker 1: they get this guy? And I think that comes down

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Speaker 1: to the whole miss price asset idea. It's you know, listen,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of talented players out there and they

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Speaker 1: may not look great in one situation. And I'm sure

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Speaker 1: a lot. I would love to do a deep dive.

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Speaker 1: Maybe somebody else will do it. Here's what people thought

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Speaker 1: when the Andrew Wiggins trade happened, and my guests rob Is,

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Speaker 1: a lot of people were like, what is he? He

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Speaker 1: he could never leave Minnesota anywhere? What is he? But

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Speaker 1: he's not having to lead Golden State? And that's I

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Speaker 1: think everybody kind of miss priced what Andrew Wiggins was.

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Speaker 1: And I think we'll see that with other guys this

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Speaker 1: summer again. Zach Lavine like he has had to be

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Speaker 1: the number one, number one, a number one B whatever

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Speaker 1: you want to say, if you can definitely make him

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Speaker 1: your second or third best player. I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: you've got a home, absolute home run Andrew Wiggins. Really

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Speaker 1: great player, he's just not a number one to lead

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Speaker 1: the player, not your number one franchise guy. But now

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Speaker 1: when there's no pressure and it's like, hey, cut to

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Speaker 1: the hoop, you know, here's open shots because everybody's hugged

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Speaker 1: up on Curry and Clay. He's having a great series. Man,

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Speaker 1: It's just just so good to see Robot. I'm just happy. Now.

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Speaker 1: The question is can the Lakers find one of those

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Speaker 1: to pair with Lebron and Anton Davis? Time's running out

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Speaker 1: here there. Uh, free agency is in less than three weeks. Look,

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Speaker 1: rad and we're not doing our jobs if we don't

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Speaker 1: bring it full circle with the Lakers at some point.

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Speaker 1: I mean that the Lakers. The big story to come

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Speaker 1: out this week you talked about it is, Uh, Athony

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Speaker 1: Davis hasn't touched the basketball in six weeks, not talking

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Speaker 1: about that, and everyone's everyone's freaking out about it. And

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Speaker 1: I'm like, did you guys do that on the radio show? Absolutely?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely not, No, neither one of them. We're really killing them.

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Speaker 1: But they were surprised at how you know, un upset

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Speaker 1: I was about that story. I'm like, look, man, Anthony Davis,

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Speaker 1: his problem has never been basketball, Like he's you know,

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Speaker 1: four time All NBA, eight time All Star, four time

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Speaker 1: All Defensive. His issue is he's always hurt. So if

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Speaker 1: it's gonna mean him being healthy for seventy plus games, bro,

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Speaker 1: like lift weights and do yoga until October, I don't care.

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Speaker 1: Like the basketball will will be fine. Don't worry about that.

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Speaker 1: What I care about is, you know, is your knee

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Speaker 1: and your ankle gonna make it through eighties two games? Man,

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Speaker 1: if that's the answer that, uh, and here I thought

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Speaker 1: you were gonna say the big news not was not

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Speaker 1: Anthony Davis? Was what that? The Atlanta Hawks have a

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Speaker 1: new GM. Did you see Did you see who it is?

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Speaker 1: Landry Fields? Bro? I saw that and I was like,

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Speaker 1: I thought he was still in the league. And then

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Speaker 1: I looked it up. Are you ready? Landry Fields is

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Speaker 1: thirty three years old and he's ad GM. What. First

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Speaker 1: of all, he can he went to Stanford, so we

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Speaker 1: know he's smart. But he was a second round pick.

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Speaker 1: Showed well with the Knicks that I think he had

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Speaker 1: a moment with the Raptors, maybe made some pretty good money.

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Speaker 1: I guess he had some injuries. He's now with NBA

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Speaker 1: GM at thirty three, turns thirty four later this month.

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Speaker 1: That's not bad. And you're in a good position because

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Speaker 1: guess what, Atlanta has some assets that are tradeable, like

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Speaker 1: John Collins. Uh. I think Clint Capella is still on

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Speaker 1: the roster. Like you chip those guys, you package them

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Speaker 1: and maybe you make something happen for for another star

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Speaker 1: to pair with. Trey Young shout out to Landry Fields.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he's a listener of the podcast,

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Speaker 1: but um, I'll close with this Rob and I don't

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Speaker 1: know if my buddy's listening. Um, you guys don't. Since

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Speaker 1: I moved to l A, I would go to the gym,

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00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:23,240
Speaker 1: which is the former Clippers facility, and I would always

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Speaker 1: see these trainers working out guys and they would seem,

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Speaker 1: you know, notice. I would walk into the gym like

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00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 1: looking for a pickup game, and I'd be like, oh, jeez,

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00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:33,880
Speaker 1: that's a former NBA player shooting with the coach. And

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00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:36,640
Speaker 1: then the guy noticed me, so we became friendly. And

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to get him on the podcast, and he's

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Speaker 1: been reluctant, but he tells me after the fun because

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Speaker 1: he heard the Drew Handlon when Rob and He's like, okay,

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00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:45,120
Speaker 1: that was that was good. I'll do it. And I

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Speaker 1: did not tell him I'm gonna say this. He legitimately

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Speaker 1: texted me Rob, I'm gonna I'm wanna t you up first.

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Speaker 1: Who would you rather have leading your team? Jason Kidd

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Speaker 1: or Steph Curry? And I didn't see that. I didn't

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Speaker 1: see the text for a few hours and then I

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Speaker 1: saw it. I was like, oh, well that's obvious, and um,

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Speaker 1: let's just say there's some disagreeing there. Wow, Jason Kidd.

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Speaker 1: I like Jason Kid. I showed why point guard all

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Speaker 1: Time of Famer. I mean, but I mean, is that

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Speaker 1: really a debate? I think he's gonna make it one. Okay,

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Speaker 1: you might be a personal friend of Jason Kidd. And

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Speaker 1: and nothing against Jason Kidd. I think they jokingly called

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Speaker 1: him Ason Kid because he didn't have a jumper so

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Speaker 1: they didn't want the j and his name, you know. Um,

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Speaker 1: but he's a Hall of Famer three three point shoot

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Speaker 1: at the end of his career, he did shooting, yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: but at thirty nine with the MAVs, what's fine? I know,

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Speaker 1: but he does have a ring. He was good with

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Speaker 1: them Nicks for a minute. He was very good, but

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Speaker 1: then that's took him to the finals a couple of times.

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Speaker 1: Never could break through. Who just they lost to the

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Speaker 1: Lakers once or twice twice? No, No No, they lost once

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Speaker 1: of the Lakers, once of the Spurs. I believe that's right.

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Speaker 1: They had Kenyan Martin. Listen, Jason Kidd is I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's probably got a top five point guard all time

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Speaker 1: case right, his numbers are unparis. I mean, you just

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Speaker 1: resume he's he's you can, I think, But I think

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Speaker 1: a better debate. How's this Jason Kidd or Chris Paul? Oh?

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Speaker 1: And I think that now I would I have not

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Speaker 1: looked at the stuff. Um, but off the top of

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Speaker 1: my head, you know, I know Chris Paul is more recent,

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Speaker 1: but I would I think Jason Kidd probably has him.

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Speaker 1: I think I think this probably goes to like how

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Speaker 1: we talked about the Shock Duncan debate, where whose peak

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Speaker 1: versus longevity. Chris Paul's longevity is incredible. But if I

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Speaker 1: have like prime each guy, give me Jason Kidd. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know he could do well. I think he Chris

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Speaker 1: Paul is still only thirty four. Jason Kidd played Let's see,

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Speaker 1: I think he played, like, yeah, he played, uh eighteen seasons.

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Speaker 1: Actually Chris Paul is in yeah, sixteen, so they're they're

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Speaker 1: pretty close on that. L thirty four? Oh is he

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Speaker 1: thirty seven? Yeah? Okay, my mistake, UM that I think

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Speaker 1: that's a better debate, um with what do we bring him? Sah,

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Speaker 1: come on next week? I was like, got, well, we'll

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Speaker 1: see what the schedule has um. But yeah, I'm sorry, guys,

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Speaker 1: I think it's point guards, it's Magic, it's Curry, and

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Speaker 1: that's it. You know, I don't I don't think there's

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Speaker 1: anyone in their Stratosphy Isaiah Thomas next year, John Stockton

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Speaker 1: next year. The real debate is it can Curry catch Magic?

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00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 1: I think that's just a very tall order any shot there. Rob.

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Speaker 1: You know it's gonna be great is when they lose

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Speaker 1: Game six on Thursday, and then you get real tight

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Speaker 1: thinking about game seven. Well, I mean, listen, you know

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Speaker 1: we're in the content business. Game seven is slated for Sunday,

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Speaker 1: should it happen? And so you know the Monday pottle

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Speaker 1: were popping, and then Game six is Thursday, we will

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Speaker 1: we I think we have two guests lined up for

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Speaker 1: this week, one NFL that you guys will like. I

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Speaker 1: gotta talk football obviously, and then we think at NBA. UM,

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Speaker 1: it should be a fun week. If you're wondering about

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Speaker 1: the concussion, it was not good on Monday, and then

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Speaker 1: Monday evening it seemed to clear up a little bit.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I just didn't have motivation to really

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Speaker 1: do anything. No working out. I'm just like a lot

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Speaker 1: of laying around. I took a long nap, had the

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Speaker 1: Gambling Show with Calherd, and I just I don't know, guys,

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Speaker 1: I'm hoping it's just mild. I'm gonna try to play

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Speaker 1: basketball this morning, um half speed of course, and because

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Speaker 1: I can't, you know, I gotta play. I gotta play hoops.

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Speaker 1: I need it. Um. But anyways, congrats to the Warriors

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Speaker 1: on the game five, win Game six Thursday. They can

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Speaker 1: ice another type. Curry will get the m v P.

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Speaker 1: I mean, can Andrew Wiggins win the m v P

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Speaker 1: rob at all? No? If he hast in Game six? No? No, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't think so either. He was According to the

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Speaker 1: betting markets on Monday morning, he was minus or he

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Speaker 1: was I think plus ten thousand, plus ten thousand because

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Speaker 1: Curry was such a heavy favorite. Curry was bad, but

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Speaker 1: he's still going to win the MVP. Guys, all right,

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Speaker 1: we'll talk to you tomorrow