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Speaker 1: Welcome in What's Right with Nick Wright. Another emergency pod

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Speaker 1: following a really important Laker game. This one did not

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Speaker 1: go the Lakers way and the loss might be the

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Speaker 1: least of their worries. Celtics one eleven, Lakers won oh one.

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Speaker 1: This might be the shortest pod we've ever done, but

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Speaker 1: I wanted to do something here because I'm about to

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Speaker 1: get on a plane to go to Vegas on this

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Speaker 1: very channel. If you're watching on YouTube Monday, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: be able to watch me play in a live cash

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Speaker 1: game at the Poker Ghost Studios and then I'll be

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Speaker 1: back in New York and back doing this show Tuesday morning.

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Speaker 1: Gonna do first things first from Vegas. So very busy

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Speaker 1: next thirty six hours for me. But Lebron James Tweaks

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Speaker 1: is growing. I'm gonna call it Tweaks is growing because

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Speaker 1: Sham's just reported one to two weeks is what they're

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Speaker 1: looking at.

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Speaker 2: So here's what we want to do on the Today's

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Speaker 2: Show very.

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Speaker 1: Quickly, the game last night, the impact of Lebron's injury,

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Speaker 1: and then in we haven't talked to you since Lebron confronted.

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Speaker 2: I think that's a fair word. Steven A.

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Speaker 1: At the previous Laker game against the Knicks, and I

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Speaker 1: do think that that I guess we have talked to

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Speaker 1: you since then. We haven't talked to you since that

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Speaker 1: video came out. I do think that is worth a

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Speaker 1: few minutes because I might have some details on that

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Speaker 1: within my rights to share. So I will share those,

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Speaker 1: but first the game. We'll get to Lebron just a minute,

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Speaker 1: because I want to give credit where it's due. Tatum

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Speaker 1: was phenomenal. Tatum.

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Speaker 2: You look, even if you don't watch the game, you

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Speaker 2: look at the box.

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Speaker 1: Score, forty twelve and eight, playing big minutes, forty five minutes,

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Speaker 1: barely resting. He was outstanding and as good as Jalen

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Speaker 1: Brown was. And Jalen Brown hit a huge three late

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Speaker 1: when the game had been cut to four. He finished

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Speaker 1: with thirty one and six. I actually thought the most

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Speaker 1: impressive Celtic other than Tatum was Al Horford Horford who

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Speaker 1: kept getting put out on an island with Luke a Ancic,

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Speaker 1: and Horford held his own as well as any guy

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Speaker 1: his age. Any thirty eight year old not named Lebron

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Speaker 1: James could have been asked to do. Horford did it,

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Speaker 1: and Missoula after the game gave him a ton of

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Speaker 1: credit and he deserved a ton of credit.

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Speaker 2: I mean Luca, So I'll get to Luca in a second.

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Speaker 2: But the Tatum was great the Celtics. Here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: If you're a Celtics fan, the Celtics were awesome. It's

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Speaker 1: the best version of the Celtics. You saw it last night.

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Speaker 1: I think you'll see that again on Wednesday. Wednesday, the

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Speaker 1: Celtics play the Thunder. I think they will be amped

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Speaker 1: for that game. After that, you look at their schedule,

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Speaker 1: you might not see a fully locked in, fully motivated

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Speaker 1: Celtics team until Round two of the playoffs. You might

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Speaker 1: after Saturday night and then this coming Wednesday. That.

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Speaker 2: Let me put it like this, If.

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Speaker 1: The Celtics don't play well Wednesday, and I think they will,

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Speaker 1: Saturday might be the last time you see them play

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Speaker 1: great for two months because they're not gonna have to

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Speaker 1: the after Oklahoma City. The schedule is Miami, Brooklyn, Brooklyn, Utah, Portland, Sacramento, Phoenix,

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Speaker 1: San Antonio, Memphis, Miami, Phoenix, Washington, New York, Orlando, Charlotte, Charlotte.

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Speaker 1: Maybe that New York game late in the year. But

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Speaker 1: I also could see the Celtics, you know, kind of

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Speaker 1: holding some things back in that game because that's probably

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Speaker 1: gonna be the round two matchup. But the Celtics showed

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Speaker 1: you yesterday, particularly in that third quarter, is that championship gear.

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Speaker 1: They still have it, And not that many of us

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Speaker 1: doubted they had it. But this is why a lot

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Speaker 1: of us, hand up, myself included, have considered the Celtics,

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Speaker 1: not the Calves, the real favorites in the East all

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Speaker 1: year long. So the Celtics serve massive credit. They got that.

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Speaker 1: They got the victory by dominating the Lakers in the

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Speaker 1: third quarter. There was a moment I thought the Lakers

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Speaker 1: thought foul on a three pointer on Derek White when

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Speaker 1: it was down to four is what allowed the Celtics

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Speaker 1: after that great third quarter, So Celtics win. They're seven

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Speaker 1: so they are just locked into the three line. Now

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Speaker 1: demeanor after the game tells me he doesn't think this

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Speaker 2: Well, they have a tough schedule the rest of the way.

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Speaker 1: I think it's the third toughest schedule the rest of

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Speaker 1: the way. Now, I am obviously, you know, maybe biased

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Speaker 1: another way to put it. To see grizzlyes Lakers. I

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Speaker 1: obviously would hope Lebron would be back by then. It

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Speaker 1: wouldn't shock me if they have him come back after

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Speaker 1: that for the homestand but one to two weeks means

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Speaker 2: I don't think this is anything like a death.

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Speaker 1: Now for the Lakers, and I even think there is

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Speaker 1: a slight bright side that I'll get to in a moment.

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Speaker 1: What it does mean, however, is their ability to hold

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Speaker 1: on to the two seed, which they loss last night,

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Speaker 1: three line are certainly in play now. I don't think

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Speaker 1: so everyone knows the standings. Denver's forty one and twenty two,

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Speaker 1: worry about them falling to the six, but not a

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Speaker 1: big margin of error. Even though Memphis has not been

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Speaker 2: But the schedule's not easy.

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Speaker 1: At Brooklyn should be able to handle that game, then

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Speaker 1: be without Lebron James gonna be in a tough spot. Now.

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Speaker 1: Where they deserve credit is the first half last night

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Speaker 1: lot of credit. And listen, Lucas still got thirty four,

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Speaker 1: but Luca only had three assists and Luca, now, some

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Speaker 1: of that was this guy's missing shots, but they did

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Speaker 1: a good job of making sure Luca couldn't just be

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Speaker 1: the pre eminent creator for the Lakers, and it's why

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Speaker 1: the Lakers often struggled. There are some Laker fans who

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Speaker 1: I'm noticing are already like man, Luca seems to be laboring.

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Speaker 2: Luca doesn't. Is he injured?

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Speaker 1: As someone who has watched you know, as much Luca

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Speaker 1: let me tell you, Luca appearing to be banged up

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Speaker 1: is just Luca. He's always kind of limping, He's always

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Speaker 1: kind of laboring. He's always got that kind of sour

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Speaker 1: ah look on his face. It's just who he is

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Speaker 1: and it's not something anyone really should be too shocked by. Okay,

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Speaker 1: still haven't gotten the full Lukadncic experience.

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Speaker 2: And I still think there.

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Speaker 1: Is a level of even though Luke had the ball,

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Speaker 1: last few games, the twenty two shots against the Celtics,

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Speaker 1: a week before, it still feels like there's a little

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Speaker 1: game where he had thirty eight and fifteen And the

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Speaker 1: fifteen assists is the number I'm you know, really looking at.

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Speaker 1: And maybe with Lebron out, you're going to get a

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Speaker 1: when Lebron comes back that you're gonna get more Luca

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Speaker 1: want to get back to Lebron. Jokich had a thirty

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Speaker 1: win him the MVP award. That would really listen. I

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Speaker 1: to Josh. Two years ago, Josh Allen had far better

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Speaker 1: Luca had the best stats in basketball by a lot.

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Speaker 1: He was thirty four, nine and ten for this season,

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Speaker 1: the sixty to twenty ten game the year before last.

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Speaker 1: I'll have to look, but regardless, he had the seventy

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Speaker 1: three game point game was definitely last season. But the

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Speaker 1: argument was his team hasn't won enough there and it's

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Speaker 1: Jokers Award, which I was totally fine with that. The

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Speaker 1: MVP this year, based on the president that we have,

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Speaker 1: probably needs to be shited. In fact, almost definitely needs

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Speaker 1: to be shit. I do want to talk the Lebron

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Speaker 1: stuff before we get to the confrontation on Friday night.

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Speaker 1: I will be really bummed because he's gonna be healthy

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Speaker 1: by the playoffs. All be really bummed if he doesn't

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Speaker 1: get to play seven more games this year. So this

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Speaker 1: assuredly knocks Lebron out of He wasn't there, listen. He

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Speaker 1: I was just talking MVP. MVP is going to go

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Speaker 1: Shay one Joker to or maybe Joker one Shay to.

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Speaker 2: That's how it should be. That's what it's going to be.

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Speaker 1: But Lebron was making a case for some really fourth

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Speaker 1: or fifth place votes. He also has been making a

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Speaker 1: really interesting first Team All NBA case and first Team

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Speaker 1: and in that fifth spot I thought was going to

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Speaker 1: come down between Donovan and Lebron Lebron now being out

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Speaker 1: sitting at fifty eight games, the first team All NBA

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Speaker 1: to get to the sixty five game threshold. I given

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Speaker 2: We're super nervous. You can't imagine what it be like.

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Speaker 1: You get the phone call, your kids getting CPR, so

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Speaker 1: you're you're certainly going to be on at it edge.

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Speaker 1: And then the other piece is this does it feel

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Speaker 1: like there is been? And this is where the leave

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Speaker 1: my son out of it? Part I guess is about Bronnie.

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Speaker 1: Does it feel like there has been? Is it surprising

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Speaker 1: when you hear Bronnie in the NBA is playing exactly

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Speaker 1: to the level of the fifty fifth pick supposed to

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Speaker 1: when you hear in the G League he is producing

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Speaker 1: exactly to the level the Lakers' first round pick seventeenth

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Speaker 1: overall did last year. Does it feel like that's what's

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Speaker 1: been when they've decided to talk about him in the media,

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Speaker 1: that that's been the topic or that that's been the

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Speaker 1: context part in me? Or does it feel more like

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Speaker 1: it's been This is a make a wish story. This

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Speaker 1: is a guy who has no business being there and

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Speaker 1: his way out of his depth. And that's the part

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Speaker 1: new Listen. Some of this is just part of being

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Speaker 1: you know, I guess the good side of being bronze

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Speaker 1: kid is you get drafted when maybe you wouldn't have

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Speaker 1: the bad side is even if you, you know, show

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Speaker 1: play up to that level that you earned it, or

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Speaker 1: that you're earning it, you're gonna get scrutinized. But as

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Speaker 1: Stephen I said, that was apparent confronting a guy about

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Speaker 1: his kid, and I didn't think it was out of line.

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Speaker 1: And I actually think the fact that he did that

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Speaker 1: and then walk down the Knicks, who happened to be

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Speaker 1: steven A's team, right in front of him, it's pretty dope. Sadly,

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Speaker 1: Lebron's now hurt, so Lakers, I would say, let's just

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Speaker 1: say he's out the next ten. They should beat Brooklyn, Phoenix,

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Speaker 1: San Antonio, Chicago, Orlando without him, and then if at

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Speaker 1: Milwaukee at Denver.

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Speaker 2: Home for Denver, home for Milwaukee, can you go one

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Speaker 2: in three?

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Speaker 1: I guess I'm putting it like this, Six and four

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Speaker 1: in the next ten without Bron would be good. Five

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Speaker 1: and five anything worse, big problem, and seven and three

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Speaker 1: are better is outstanding. Luca can do it, especially if

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Speaker 1: Ruy and Jackson Hazer back.

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Speaker 2: Luca can do it. But it's on Luca now.

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Speaker 1: Luckily, you know, at any given night he's the second

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Speaker 1: best player in the league. All right, I'm headed to Vegas.

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