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Speaker 2: It's been a lot of screaming for NBA reasons we

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Speaker 1: But the playing is upon us as the regular season.

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Speaker 2: Oh you know, I always use well used maxims and

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Speaker 2: colloquialisms on this podcast. But anyway, the regular seasons wrapped

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Speaker 2: up over the weekend. Jack Sixers ended the year on

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Speaker 2: of their respective seasons on a five game role. And

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Speaker 2: we're gonna get into the playing and potential playoff matchups

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Speaker 2: and more with longtime NBA writer and editor Harrison Fagan

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Speaker 2: on today's episode. I'm Miles Gray and I'm Jack O'Brien,

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Speaker 2: and this is dot chich Sorry, got it looka dot

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Speaker 1: Okay, there's your go be driving spinning. Got it with five?

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Speaker 1: Is gonna try another?

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Speaker 1: Mister? Look God, James Ynest, look, tell no show time

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Speaker 3: Yes, And it's the most wonderful time of the year. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean spring eternal for approximately sixty more minutes. I

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Speaker 3: know for the seventy six ers. We're gonna do it

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Speaker 3: this year again to break Jack breaks in eight games. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: so we're recording this. This is a Schrodegger's cat of

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Speaker 3: an episode. We're recording this before the first playing game.

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Speaker 3: Y'all know better than we do what happened, what's going

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, but no, you don't know what if our

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Speaker 1: what if our predictions are really correct? Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: we might know better than them.

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Speaker 2: Three And who better knows than our guest, Harrison Fagan,

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Speaker 2: sc Nation, NBA editor, co host of Lakers Lounge, and

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Speaker 2: co host of Rewinder Reconsider Harrison Fagan, thank you for

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Speaker 2: joining us today. What an appropriate time for you to

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Speaker 2: join us, because you know, people saw what you your

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Speaker 1: Like, he's right, but don't say this. Don't say it,

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Speaker 3: So, yeah, Harrison, you wrote an article saying what I thought,

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Speaker 3: and I think said to Miles and Jabbari that yeah, no,

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Speaker 3: you guys should duck the Nuggets, like, get out.

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Speaker 1: Right, throw the game, don't don't win, don't don't beat

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Speaker 3: like winning. What are y'all doing?

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Speaker 1: Trust me, Lea's nowhere. Yeah, But at the.

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Speaker 2: To not go up against the team that has all

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Speaker 2: Look, I only disagree because, like I said, I live

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Speaker 2: you know what, no, bring them, bring them to me now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. But as I crashed back down to Earth, I'm like, no, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 3: There's also the point that you guys might not be

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Speaker 1: For the Lakers. So we don't know what has happened.

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Speaker 2: Harrison, I have to ask you, like, if let's let's

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Speaker 2: No, No, but we have shown we can compete against

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the two worst matchups for the Lakers are the

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Speaker 1: It's like urger and bunker out. They're a different team

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Speaker 1: So theoretically, you know, you could talk yourself into that.

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Speaker 3: I think it would be really embarrassing to lose on

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Speaker 1: Exactly among the reasons that they will not do it

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Speaker 3: So, uh, you know, it didn't stop the Cavs, didn't

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Speaker 3: Yeah you know anything about the narratives or like, uh

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Speaker 1: So, you know, so and so was saying on the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh man.

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Speaker 2: But like I think, for me, it all goes it

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Speaker 2: So it'll be poetic. I think the version that will

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Speaker 3: Bump on the road to history. Yeah, Los Angeles Lakers,

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Speaker 2: Those were because we're a banana skin, that's all. We got,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the most full time of the year.

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Speaker 2: No, now the Simpsons can come that teenager character.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Wolves Sons. Sons went three and I against the

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Speaker 3: in quote, I'd like to see the Sons win this.

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Speaker 3: I don't know who's going to win it, do you do?

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Speaker 1: You know it is. It's gonna be a fascinating stylistic

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Speaker 1: A quote about like, yeah they got KD, but we

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Speaker 3: Just looking around the locker room and named the first

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Speaker 3: leave Jaden Jaden McDaniels, Jaden turn around, buddy, Yeah McDaniels.

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Speaker 3: That's what it says on the back of his jersey.

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Speaker 3: This next series, I'm very fascinated by Clippers MAVs. Clippers

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Speaker 1: Again, we just like lost track of that.

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Speaker 3: And he's actually the best player in the league. He

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Speaker 1: If he's able to stay healthy, incredible seventy two minutes

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Speaker 1: Well it's He's also been good in past year's playoffs also,

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Speaker 1: And you know, there have been those guys throughout NBA history,

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Speaker 1: if I had to pick in this series, just because

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Speaker 1: it was funny. You mentioned the Clippers. You said they

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Speaker 1: doing a joke. About like they have not they have

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Speaker 3: Might be back if memory serves James Harden also a

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Speaker 1: Yeah, don't don't google it. He always takes up a

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Speaker 2: And now we're I just read Tyler was saying Kawhi

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Speaker 3: All right, never mind, Uh, Brian the editor cut my

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Speaker 4: They think they're just saying they a full medalsa And

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Speaker 1: Uh, and so you know he did in an optimistic sign,

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Speaker 1: So you would think it's not like a major injury

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Speaker 1: But the Clippers certainly have not like earned the benefit

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Speaker 3: And flammation you do have to use an abbreviation when

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Speaker 1: All right, So.

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Speaker 2: Let's I mean that too is like you know, the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the qui if Kauai is healthy or if Kui

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I think I'm both pulling for and kind kind of

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Speaker 1: We'll see, should we should we go for the record?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Miles, Jack, do you have a pick?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Pray for the downfall of my enemies on a

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Speaker 1: nightly basis? Okay, all right? Yeah, yeah, No? Why did

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Speaker 2: Doesn't off my Mike Finley Mavericks jersey that I got

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Speaker 3: All right? Uh. In the Eastern Conference, the Knicks messed around,

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Speaker 1: Do we think he's going to be top five MVP voting?

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Speaker 1: Like it seems like it based on sort of the

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Speaker 1: Og returning at the right time.

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Speaker 3: They're like, I don't think they're undefeated with Og, but

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Speaker 1: It's insanely good.

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Speaker 3: I don't Yeah, unbelievable. Uh and yeah, he like with him,

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00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:43,000
Speaker 3: they're really hard to beat. That does you know if

434
00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:45,680
Speaker 3: the if the Sixers are able to get a win tonight,

435
00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:48,240
Speaker 3: that does appear to be who they're playing. If the

436
00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:50,760
Speaker 3: Sixers are not able to get a win.

437
00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:54,600
Speaker 1: They're twenty and three with Og. Twenty and three. And

438
00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:56,440
Speaker 1: I heard a stat the other day that Og has

439
00:20:56,480 --> 00:20:59,040
Speaker 1: not had a negative plus minus game the entire season,

440
00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:01,639
Speaker 1: which is sort of a you know, because that is

441
00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:04,000
Speaker 1: like a team based a lot of the time. Yeah,

442
00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:06,480
Speaker 1: you know, like you're just going to be on the

443
00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:08,359
Speaker 1: floor when like somebody else on your team misses a

444
00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:10,520
Speaker 1: bunch of shots and you just are negative. But I

445
00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:11,480
Speaker 1: mean that's crazy.

446
00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:14,240
Speaker 3: You know, by this point, we know what happened between

447
00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:18,480
Speaker 3: the Sixers and the Heat. I just want to say,

448
00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:22,880
Speaker 3: like I've read a lot of playoff content, I've listened

449
00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:28,440
Speaker 3: to some playoff preview podcasts. It feels like people are

450
00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:32,080
Speaker 3: doing like the Heat last year. I just want to

451
00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:35,920
Speaker 3: like reiterate, at this time last year, the Heat were

452
00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:39,480
Speaker 3: in the same position, yeah, or very similar position.

453
00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:40,879
Speaker 1: They didn't.

454
00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:43,080
Speaker 3: People are like, yeah, but this year, like they're not

455
00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:44,240
Speaker 3: even putting it together.

456
00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:44,720
Speaker 1: They're not.

457
00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:48,679
Speaker 3: Last year, they were not good until the second half

458
00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:53,000
Speaker 3: of the second play in game. They lost the first

459
00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:56,879
Speaker 3: playing game. They they were losing by a point to

460
00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,960
Speaker 3: the Bulls heading into the fourth quarter of the set

461
00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:05,280
Speaker 3: playing game. They didn't decide to take it up three

462
00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:09,520
Speaker 3: levels until like the playoffs starts. It doesn't make sense

463
00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:12,080
Speaker 3: that they would decide to do that again. I just

464
00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:16,560
Speaker 3: want to remember, like again, like people are like, yeah,

465
00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:18,840
Speaker 3: but Butler this year is different. It's like he was

466
00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:21,960
Speaker 3: different last year in the regular season too. Everybody was

467
00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:25,639
Speaker 3: saying the exact same thing. I don't expect it to

468
00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:28,680
Speaker 3: happen because when it happened last year was like that, well,

469
00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:32,560
Speaker 3: this is a literal miracle. Like I I've never seen

470
00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:37,600
Speaker 3: anything anyone just decide to be way better. But he

471
00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:40,840
Speaker 3: was able to do it last year. If they're able

472
00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:44,920
Speaker 3: to get the seventh seed, I could see them doing

473
00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:47,720
Speaker 3: it again this year. I don't know, it's I also

474
00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:50,120
Speaker 3: feel like Nick runs heat.

475
00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:53,320
Speaker 1: Those two specific teams would set basketball back, like at

476
00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:55,680
Speaker 1: least scoring, it would set it for decades. We'd be

477
00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:58,439
Speaker 1: getting like like final scores of like fifty nine to

478
00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:00,679
Speaker 1: fifty seven in a playoff game. You know.

479
00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:04,399
Speaker 3: Yeah, and when in doubt, I always like Brunson is

480
00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:08,240
Speaker 3: always good for a rounder too, better than I'm expecting,

481
00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:11,480
Speaker 3: like back to when he was with the MAVs, and

482
00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:16,120
Speaker 3: you know last year with the Knicks, Like he's really great.

483
00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:17,840
Speaker 1: In the play He's a playoff riser as well.

484
00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:22,640
Speaker 3: And so I I don't know, I think the Knicks

485
00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:24,720
Speaker 3: are probably gonna win no matter who they're facing. But

486
00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:29,520
Speaker 3: it's I just it's like listening to like the Bills

487
00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:33,119
Speaker 3: on Bill Simmons podcast, He's just like not scared of

488
00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:35,240
Speaker 3: the heat at all. He's like, I'd love to play

489
00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:39,639
Speaker 3: the heat. That's fine, please, who cares? Just like that

490
00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:43,320
Speaker 3: because Jimmy Butler has been bad all season. I'm just like, yeah, man,

491
00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:46,240
Speaker 3: like what we did this last year, Like it's in.

492
00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:48,320
Speaker 1: The Simpsons scene of like how many times the Celtics

493
00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:51,879
Speaker 1: fans have to step on the rake, you know, exactly

494
00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:52,760
Speaker 1: like we did.

495
00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:55,800
Speaker 3: It Bucks Pacers is also going to be interesting. Yeah,

496
00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:59,040
Speaker 3: Jianness Listen is doubtful heading into Game one due to

497
00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:03,520
Speaker 3: a cast strain. Cast strains are very tricky injuries. We

498
00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:10,560
Speaker 3: saw that be the injury leading into KD having an

499
00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:14,520
Speaker 3: achilles like a few years back, right, like it's you

500
00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:20,320
Speaker 3: just incredibly Yeah, did you feel.

501
00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:21,840
Speaker 2: The whole thing go up your the back of your

502
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:23,480
Speaker 2: leg Like a lot of people say that happens, And

503
00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:25,520
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, it's scary.

504
00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:28,320
Speaker 3: It's just like it really couldn't have gone Like the

505
00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:32,119
Speaker 3: last month of the season couldn't have gone worse for

506
00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:32,840
Speaker 3: the Bucks.

507
00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:36,480
Speaker 1: Like it's really not good. Really, the second half of

508
00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:38,359
Speaker 1: the season couldn't have gone worse for the Bucks. You

509
00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:40,400
Speaker 1: got that Doc Rivers was going to finish the year.

510
00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:42,200
Speaker 1: He took over the team when they were like thirty

511
00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:44,800
Speaker 1: and like twelve or something, and he finished the year

512
00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:48,080
Speaker 1: with a with a below five hundred record. Yeah, he

513
00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:51,000
Speaker 1: didn't ask to come in. He didn't ask to come in.

514
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:54,879
Speaker 1: He would not have wished that situation on his worst enemy,

515
00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:59,800
Speaker 1: you know, right exactly. And yeah, and the bus driver too,

516
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:04,159
Speaker 1: the bull, little class, the equipment manager. It's crazy, he

517
00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:06,720
Speaker 1: just leaves the laundry out all over the floor, like

518
00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:09,000
Speaker 1: it's not even It's just I feel like I'm at

519
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,600
Speaker 1: home with my teenage kids. I did start to wonder

520
00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:14,040
Speaker 1: after the second stray that the equipment manager took this year.

521
00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:15,880
Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, is this guy actually just like doing

522
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:18,920
Speaker 1: a fat job like that? One needs to look into this, Like, yeah,

523
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:22,440
Speaker 1: Doc and Joannis both bringing up specifically the equipment manager.

524
00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:25,200
Speaker 1: I have some questions now, right, Yeah, there's an agenda.

525
00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:25,920
Speaker 1: There's an agenda.

526
00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:28,040
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, cause I saw it on the more

527
00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:31,000
Speaker 2: cynical end, it's that Giannis might not be ready till

528
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:31,840
Speaker 2: Game two or three.

529
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:35,680
Speaker 1: And then Woach said today that they're preparing to start

530
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:38,320
Speaker 1: the series without him at least. Yeah, yeah, no, he's

531
00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:40,320
Speaker 1: not going to be there for Game one. Yeah, get them.

532
00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:43,879
Speaker 1: At least one of the betting sites had to like

533
00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:46,160
Speaker 1: change the odds for the series because so many people

534
00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:50,120
Speaker 1: were coming in on the Pacers after that, so yeah, wow, yeah.

535
00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:54,479
Speaker 3: And there there's also people like speculating about Dame's future

536
00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:56,560
Speaker 3: in Milwaukee if they lose early.

537
00:25:57,040 --> 00:25:58,280
Speaker 1: It's just a bat.

538
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:03,800
Speaker 3: It's like it really could have gone much worse this season. Unfortunately.

539
00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:07,000
Speaker 1: I'm excited for the generational blame deflection that we're going

540
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 1: to get whenever this Bucks run ends, because you got Dame,

541
00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:13,359
Speaker 1: you got Doc Jannis, Like an underrated sort of blame

542
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:17,120
Speaker 1: deflector like all these guys seeing who's going to point

543
00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:20,680
Speaker 1: the finger at? Who is going to be incredible? Wait

544
00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:23,000
Speaker 1: to watch it? Yeah, it's going to be three Spider

545
00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:28,639
Speaker 1: Man meme. Yeah, just like pointing to just everyone, like

546
00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:30,280
Speaker 1: what do you mean we failed? We reached the Elite

547
00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:32,520
Speaker 1: eight of the NBA in college, Like this is help.

548
00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:36,240
Speaker 1: I don't understand how you're emotion failure. Yeah, we did

549
00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:38,439
Speaker 1: better than last year. It's about steps the success. We

550
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:40,560
Speaker 1: got out of the first round in a seven game

551
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:42,639
Speaker 1: series against the Pacers and then we lost in the

552
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:46,800
Speaker 1: second round. That's that's progress exactly exactly what.

553
00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:49,160
Speaker 3: What storyline do you think is being underrated on either

554
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:53,480
Speaker 3: side of the east to the west. Where what do

555
00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:55,800
Speaker 3: you think is we're going to see heading in If

556
00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:58,480
Speaker 3: you had to guess last year, obviously it was the heat,

557
00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:02,239
Speaker 3: you know, Yeah, I don't know how many people were

558
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:04,879
Speaker 3: predicting that, But what you had to guess a like

559
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:08,400
Speaker 3: underrated storyline we're going to be talking about heading into

560
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:09,920
Speaker 3: let's say the Conference Finals.

561
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:11,679
Speaker 1: What do you think it is? I mean, I think,

562
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,560
Speaker 1: to be honest, and this hurts me in my heart

563
00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:17,320
Speaker 1: to say, but I think that people maybe are not

564
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:20,800
Speaker 1: giving like the Celtics enough do just because they don't

565
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:23,119
Speaker 1: have that kind of one exemplary player who's going to

566
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 1: be an MVP. They may not get a first team

567
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:28,520
Speaker 1: All NBA guy. They might, but like they have probably

568
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 1: the Again as a Lakers fan, this is causing me

569
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 1: physical paint, but they have the best starting five in

570
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:35,640
Speaker 1: basketball right now, and they've been really good all year

571
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,200
Speaker 1: and they're probably not going to get like a great

572
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:40,280
Speaker 1: opponent coming out of the play in. I mean, you know,

573
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:42,399
Speaker 1: again it's possible it's the heat and the heat like

574
00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:45,000
Speaker 1: you know, pull off sort of their like dark magic

575
00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:48,560
Speaker 1: again and just like sort of Jimmy Butler, he's like, oh,

576
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 1: it's spring time for me to become Michael Jordan again

577
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:53,840
Speaker 1: and just like knocks them out of the playoffs. But like,

578
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:56,800
Speaker 1: I think that the Celtics may be sort of getting

579
00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 1: a lot of rest between these series in some cases,

580
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 1: and you know, I'm not sure that you know, just

581
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 1: because of how bad the bottom of the East is,

582
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:06,879
Speaker 1: Like it seems like they are gonna sort of sweep

583
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 1: through all the way to the finals, you know. To

584
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:11,439
Speaker 1: be honest, I would be sort of surprised if they

585
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:13,920
Speaker 1: lost more than like two or three games right now.

586
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:17,600
Speaker 3: So the Sixers did go eight note to end the season,

587
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:20,040
Speaker 3: do you want to take that over again talking about

588
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:21,240
Speaker 3: how bad the bottom of the East is.

589
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:26,960
Speaker 1: And also I cannot confirm or deny if I'm trying

590
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:30,679
Speaker 1: to reverse jinks to the Celtics right now, so I

591
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,880
Speaker 1: will say, think they're unbeatable, no one can take them out.

592
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:40,280
Speaker 1: Prove me wrong that you want to if you're then

593
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:42,800
Speaker 1: let the Heat beat the Celtics. I don't know. I'm

594
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 1: the only thing right.

595
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:50,600
Speaker 3: Now openly, I openly admit to be rooting and heading

596
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,280
Speaker 3: into these playoffs, I'm rooting for the field. It's like

597
00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 3: Celtics versus the field. I'm just rooting for the field.

598
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:59,760
Speaker 3: The only thing that's giving me hope is all those

599
00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 3: like advanced stats that are like they're the best team ever.

600
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 3: The thing they all point out though, is that they

601
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:09,480
Speaker 3: are the best team ever, but they don't have a player,

602
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 3: like a single player that is like good enough to

603
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 3: be like up held up with like those Jordan teams

604
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 3: with like any any of those teams, and that is

605
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:24,280
Speaker 3: usually a problem at some point in the NBA playoffs

606
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:27,480
Speaker 3: because you need to have someone who is a walking,

607
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:32,280
Speaker 3: talking bucket, and that's been a problem for them in

608
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 3: the regular season, like Tatum in crunch time has not

609
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 3: been able to just like take the team on his back.

610
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 3: So I'm hoping that that is what we see derail them,

611
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:50,120
Speaker 3: And yes, that would be you know, yeah.

612
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:52,440
Speaker 1: Like, I mean, that's just been an issue.

613
00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:55,320
Speaker 3: They can't they can't just be like all right, man,

614
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:58,640
Speaker 3: like we're all tired and a little bit scared. It's

615
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 3: the end of the game and now it's Jason time.

616
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 3: It just it doesn't work with the mask point. Yeah, yeah,

617
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:10,640
Speaker 3: I mean Grant Williams tried to put the mask on

618
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:13,040
Speaker 3: and he was like, well, what what are you doing?

619
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:15,560
Speaker 3: You know, So like that's how averse he is to

620
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 3: the superhero mask.

621
00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:19,200
Speaker 1: It's like, it's my team, let's go. You know, I'm

622
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:21,120
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna trash talk Jimmy Butler O.

623
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:25,440
Speaker 3: Wait then, oh man, what a run. That was so

624
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 3: fun when he Yeah, last year.

625
00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:30,200
Speaker 1: It is sort of incredible how many guys the Grant

626
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 1: Williams has made mad. It's like every single NBA player interview.

627
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:35,880
Speaker 1: You know that. I thought, like another I saw like

628
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 1: the MAVs were coming out and blasting him, and like,

629
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 1: you know, it's just yeah, it's it's amazing. He really

630
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,880
Speaker 1: has gotten under the entire league skin. Yeah, not easy

631
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 1: to do. Impressive.

632
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:48,200
Speaker 3: All right, let's uh, let's take a quick break and

633
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 3: when we come back. Oh man, you're in trouble. I

634
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:58,360
Speaker 3: got I gotta say, Harrison, you are wandering into a shootout. Uh,

635
00:30:58,440 --> 00:30:59,840
Speaker 3: it's the rapid fire around a question.

636
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 1: We'll be right back, and we're back, We're back. You're saying,

637
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 1: I'm walking into a disadvantageous situation. Can I just can

638
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 1: I theoretically tank it and then get a better match

639
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:23,960
Speaker 1: up down the line, like technically you you know, technically coward?

640
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:27,520
Speaker 3: Or ready said you were right, Yeah.

641
00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah diagnosed, Yeah yeah yeah you can't totally yeah,

642
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 1: totally can you totally can't, but don't we don't like

643
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 1: to acknowledge that up top, but between.

644
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 3: As the doctor is handing you to your mother after

645
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 3: your your birth, they were like, uh, sorry, it's a coward.

646
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 1: I've never been a baby this much, ma'am.

647
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 3: Wow, he looks so scared Oh my god, this.

648
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Speaker 1: One.

649
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's anyway, well, hey, your problem not well, but

650
00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 2: Harrison faking.

651
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:01,320
Speaker 1: He's right. It's time for a rapid fire round of questioning.

652
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:03,680
Speaker 2: Okay, this is the fastest question answer segment in sports

653
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 2: podcasting history.

654
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 1: We're gonna ask you a question. Don't take too much time.

655
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 1: Let's keep the pace up, and if you do take too.

656
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 2: Much time, we will be so rude to you that

657
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 2: you will have no choice but to not be confrontational

658
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:17,400
Speaker 2: about it.

659
00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 1: Okay, here we go. You know, I don't think you

660
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 1: could be ruder to me than the Internet has been

661
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 1: in the last forty eight hours. That's true, that's true.

662
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:28,160
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, you're a journalist who said something real to

663
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 2: the to Laker fans and trust.

664
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 3: Magic critics rights are saying that they should throw this game.

665
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like feel good so being critics. Yeah yeah, yeah,

666
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 1: I mean people got mad at Jesus too.

667
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 2: You know, it's just like there, it is, there it is,

668
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 2: and maybe they will heed your advice.

669
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:51,600
Speaker 3: Have you seen the reviews for this year's Lakers. They're

670
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 3: like at a seventy three on rutten tomatoes.

671
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 1: Seventy three is not bad.

672
00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 2: Actually, yeah, I'll take that I'll take that because most

673
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 2: of them they're so cynical on there, you know, yeah,

674
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 2: exactly exactly.

675
00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 3: Well here Wayne Gerard Butler's plane.

676
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:13,040
Speaker 1: You want to go first? Or should I go first?

677
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 1: Why don't you go first?

678
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 3: Jack?

679
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 1: You want me to go first? Yeah, Harrison, we see that.

680
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 3: There's a BB one figuring behind you. My eight year old,

681
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 3: my soon to be eight year old, is a.

682
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:26,240
Speaker 1: Star Wars obsessive.

683
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 3: I'm taking him to the Skywalker Saga marathon only Star

684
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:34,080
Speaker 3: Wars film. He hasn't seen his episode three because it's

685
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:38,960
Speaker 3: a little a little heavy, you know, children being swater.

686
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 3: But he knows about order sixty six. He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, no,

687
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:46,040
Speaker 3: I got like he he knows all the lower he

688
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 3: knows like the stats. But as as a Star Wars film,

689
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 3: so many how many young links. I'm a little worried

690
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 3: about your He's all about putting up. He's all about

691
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:00,280
Speaker 3: stats and like, how how many gunners? You think this

692
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 3: has wrong?

693
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:04,560
Speaker 1: That?

694
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 3: Dad?

695
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 1: Wow? Do you like?

696
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:09,719
Speaker 3: He really is like that doesn't understand how I'm not

697
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:12,279
Speaker 3: more obsessed with stars, but I'm just curious, what's your

698
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:13,919
Speaker 3: favorite Star Wars film?

699
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,279
Speaker 1: Uh? I mean this is cliche, but Empire Strikes Back.

700
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:19,279
Speaker 1: I do think it's the best movie of all of.

701
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:21,479
Speaker 3: Them, most underrated Star Wars film.

702
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's even episode three anymore, because

703
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:26,360
Speaker 1: I feel like that used to be the answer, but

704
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 1: now I guess I'll say I guess I'll say the

705
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 1: Last Jedi, just because it's like so critically panned and

706
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:33,560
Speaker 1: so many people get so mad about it, and I

707
00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:35,760
Speaker 1: actually think that there's like a good movie in there

708
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:38,319
Speaker 1: if you sort of cut down the length of it

709
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:40,520
Speaker 1: and like the b plot where like Finn is basically

710
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 1: doing nothing for like an hour of the movie and

711
00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:48,000
Speaker 1: Casino good interesting ideas in that movie. And you know,

712
00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 1: I think it could have been better. Yeah right, I agree. Okkay,

713
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:52,279
Speaker 1: next question.

714
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:54,840
Speaker 3: Thank you for answering that on our NBA podcast.

715
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, next question, and sorry, I gotta have to take

716
00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:00,959
Speaker 2: it back to the NBA. Jack Harrison h what color

717
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:04,400
Speaker 2: kyber crystal would you use to color your lightsaber blade?

718
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:07,320
Speaker 1: Well, I you know I can actually answer that because

719
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:08,880
Speaker 1: I have on well you can't see it on this

720
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:10,839
Speaker 1: but I have them displayed in my office, the one

721
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:14,359
Speaker 1: that I made at Disneyland, and it's okay, I got

722
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 1: another I mean true Laker fan more so. But yeah,

723
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:19,319
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I mean, he was the one

724
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 1: that made purple a thing. You know, yeah, I thought

725
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:22,920
Speaker 1: you were trying to support, you know, the one black Jedi.

726
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:23,879
Speaker 1: But that's okay, that's okay.

727
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:25,319
Speaker 2: You know what I mean for the Lakers is for

728
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:27,239
Speaker 2: the Lakers, we all have our faults. How about this

729
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:29,759
Speaker 2: actual NBA question more likely to happen? And why the

730
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:32,680
Speaker 2: Lakers get in and win a series versus the Nuggets

731
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 2: or Thunder or Sixers get.

732
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 1: In and win a series versus Celtics or Knicks. Uh,

733
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:43,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say Sixers just because they have the one

734
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:44,960
Speaker 1: they need to win one game and then they get

735
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:46,880
Speaker 1: in against the Knicks, and I do think that they

736
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:49,759
Speaker 1: beat the Knicks if Embid stays healthy and so, you know,

737
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 1: like anytime you need less sort of things to break

738
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 1: right for you, I'm going to go with them. But

739
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, I think the Lakers have a

740
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:58,359
Speaker 1: shot if they lose this first playing game and win

741
00:35:58,360 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 1: the second one.

742
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:01,279
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, I'm going to read a quote to

743
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,440
Speaker 3: you from Jamal Murray and then I want you to

744
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:07,920
Speaker 3: react by telling me point made a good point. They

745
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:11,880
Speaker 3: should be scared of no, he said quoth, and I

746
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:13,840
Speaker 3: want I want you to react. I also want you

747
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 3: to spot the lie in here. There is a there

748
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:19,600
Speaker 3: is an error. I think we're the best duo. I

749
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 3: think we're They're in a bigger market and people have

750
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:25,239
Speaker 3: more interest in Lebron and a d in La or

751
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:29,000
Speaker 3: what Damon Giannis could do, or what Luca and Kyrie

752
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:31,799
Speaker 3: could do. Talking about the best duos and getting the

753
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:34,600
Speaker 3: job done and how they play for each other and

754
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 3: with each other, I think me and Jokic are undoubtedly

755
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:38,200
Speaker 3: number one.

756
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 1: Uh weird that he called him Joki? First of all?

757
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 1: Just it it's like, are you a fan? Just coworking

758
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:46,640
Speaker 1: me and Gray?

759
00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:50,239
Speaker 3: I mean, when you're talking about NBA podcast hosts, me

760
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:52,959
Speaker 3: and Gray Gray, we're up there.

761
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:58,399
Speaker 1: Obrien's got the touch man, all right? First of all,

762
00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:02,920
Speaker 1: do you agree? No? You know, I I think, I mean,

763
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 1: I don't know who I would pick as the best duo,

764
00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:07,400
Speaker 1: but it's just I mean, they're up there, certainly. And

765
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:10,160
Speaker 1: this is gonna sound disrespectful considering they just won the

766
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:12,719
Speaker 1: title and everything, but it's like, you know, I'm okay.

767
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 1: If yok says that, I feel like it's a little weird.

768
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:17,719
Speaker 1: If Jamal Murray is the one saying it would be

769
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:19,839
Speaker 1: you know, again, this is extreme and this is too

770
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:22,320
Speaker 1: mean to Jamal Murray, but I'm gonna make the analogy anyway,

771
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:24,879
Speaker 1: and that that's like, you know, like Luke Walton being

772
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 1: like Kobe and I scored you know, like eighty four

773
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 1: points combined that day, you know, right right right, It's like, yeah,

774
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 1: I mean that, like, you know, you guys do have

775
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:36,240
Speaker 1: two of the most points together as teammates in NBA history,

776
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:38,640
Speaker 1: but like one guy did the like the majority of

777
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:41,279
Speaker 1: contributing to that, And so I just like, I think

778
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:43,040
Speaker 1: that's got to be yokic given that quote, Like I

779
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:47,839
Speaker 1: don't know, Murray, like, yeah, team before before saying this.

780
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 3: What is the uh what's the factual error that he

781
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 3: included in there?

782
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:56,359
Speaker 1: There's an error in there. I don't know.

783
00:37:56,600 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 3: I think Ever is a larger market than Milwaukee.

784
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, by quite a bit.

785
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 3: Actually Milwaukee is below Salt Lake City, below San Jose, California.

786
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:14,440
Speaker 1: Uh, market by us, you know exactly.

787
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:18,560
Speaker 3: It's like wait what but yeah, Denver is like kind

788
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:20,799
Speaker 3: of right in the middle of the pack. So, by

789
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 3: the way, I would have had more interesting questions to

790
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:26,320
Speaker 3: ask you. But then I found this list of the

791
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 3: US markets by size and have just been looking at

792
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:31,359
Speaker 3: it for the past.

793
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:34,439
Speaker 1: Like there's so many ones in there that you're like, wait,

794
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 1: that city is bigger than that now, Yeah, yeah, exactly.

795
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:38,759
Speaker 1: It's been a couple of times I've fallen down that

796
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 1: rabbit hole.

797
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 3: So I Campa needs an NBA team, Seattle desperately needs

798
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:46,840
Speaker 3: an NBA team, the fourteenth biggest, Puerto Rico needs an

799
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 3: NBA team.

800
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:51,520
Speaker 2: Probably Durham at this point would too. Yeah, I've never

801
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 2: done this before. During this segment, but Jack, we have

802
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:54,479
Speaker 2: to keep this moving.

803
00:38:54,640 --> 00:39:03,560
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, smaller than Hartford, Connecticut, miles on.

804
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:07,440
Speaker 1: The whale questions, Harrison, guess which city is bigger.

805
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:13,280
Speaker 2: Big based on based on lightsabers owned per capita.

806
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:15,840
Speaker 1: Okay, you're taking a time machine.

807
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 2: You can go back in time to personally be an

808
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 2: eyewitness at any of the following moments in NBA history.

809
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:22,279
Speaker 1: You take your pick.

810
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:25,960
Speaker 2: Eighty seven Finals, Game four, Magic's baby skyhook winner in

811
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:30,480
Speaker 2: the Boston Garden, twenty ten Finals, Game seven, Blakers over Celtics,

812
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:33,320
Speaker 2: two thousand Western Conference Finals, Game.

813
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:38,800
Speaker 1: Seven, the Great lob Kobe Tshek Where are my feets? Wow?

814
00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:42,120
Speaker 1: Where do you need them to be? Like, how good

815
00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:43,400
Speaker 1: of feats are you giving me? I got it. I

816
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:45,160
Speaker 1: mean it affects the question. I don't know.

817
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 2: I guess if we're talking Staples Center, they're like premier

818
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:51,400
Speaker 2: level seats like sort of in that level.

819
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:53,719
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, you know, like he like we can

820
00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:56,959
Speaker 1: get your time machine, but not court side tickets. You're crazy? Okay,

821
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:00,640
Speaker 1: lower lower bowl, lower bull lower bowl, say lower ball.

822
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:05,279
Speaker 1: I'm I I am gonna say Game seven twenty ten,

823
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:08,319
Speaker 1: just because that is probably my favorite NBA game of

824
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:11,400
Speaker 1: all time and like my favorite Lakers win. Yeah, just

825
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:14,080
Speaker 1: you know, uh, like one of the Yeah, it's just

826
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:15,759
Speaker 1: that's a game that means a lot to me, and

827
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:17,239
Speaker 1: so I think it would be that one.

828
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 2: Shout out to my therapist for sure.

829
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:24,480
Speaker 1: Said that game. It was just Game seven. I don't

830
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:27,680
Speaker 1: need therapy man. Game seven the Lakers one. I don't

831
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:30,400
Speaker 1: you got that? Fifth ring? I'm good? Uh.

832
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:32,439
Speaker 3: And finally, someone's coming to the great City of Los

833
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:35,120
Speaker 3: Angeles for one weekend. Give us three spots they need

834
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:40,320
Speaker 3: to hit up. Let's go attraction not not restaurants, not bars,

835
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 3: just places places to hit.

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Speaker 1: I'm a terrible person to ask this question too, because

837
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:47,960
Speaker 1: I don't really like go outside all that much. But

838
00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:50,839
Speaker 1: you know, I would say the Santa mon cup here

839
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:54,360
Speaker 1: is pretty great. Uh you know, beautiful like ocean waves.

840
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 1: You know that kind of thing, ocean waves. I've heard

841
00:40:57,040 --> 00:40:59,919
Speaker 1: of these. Yeah, yeah, I can you tell them a writer.

842
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 1: I've never been there. I got to sire it out. Yeah,

843
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:08,120
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I like it can be personally,

844
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:09,239
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And I'm not asking for

845
00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:13,919
Speaker 1: the object We're not the objective. Top three on the spot. Yeah, yeah,

846
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:16,960
Speaker 1: my apartment, it's great. You should come by hang out.

847
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:19,480
Speaker 1: I got I got some vegetarian snacks for you, you know.

848
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:24,759
Speaker 1: Uh so yeah, my apartment number two, and then you know,

849
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:26,359
Speaker 1: I'll give a shout out. My wife and I went

850
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:28,520
Speaker 1: to a place called the Love Museum in downtown LA.

851
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 1: It was pretty cool. It was, you know, like a

852
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:33,319
Speaker 1: good I would say, a good date spot like there,

853
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 1: you know, if you have a significant other in your life.

854
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:39,759
Speaker 1: It was cool. Wave I paid they basically they like

855
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:43,920
Speaker 1: it's a museum built by this psychologist that was like

856
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:46,640
Speaker 1: famous for studying love and like how it works chemically

857
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 1: in your brain or whatever, and it has all these

858
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:50,680
Speaker 1: exhibits where you sort of like interact and think about

859
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:52,759
Speaker 1: things and talk to each other and whatever. It could

860
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:55,080
Speaker 1: be either the greatest or worst first date spot of

861
00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:57,800
Speaker 1: all time, but you know it was. We had a

862
00:41:57,840 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 1: lot of fun and I feel like, genuinely like I've

863
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:01,960
Speaker 1: learned things about my wife and how she sees the

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Speaker 1: world that I did not know. They give you, they ask, Yeah, yeah, exactly,

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Speaker 1: I thought different colors, you know.

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Speaker 2: It's right, Yeah, yeah, it's taking very deep, labored breaths

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Speaker 2: every three minutes, is yeah. Well, Fagan, thank you so

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Speaker 2: much for joining us. All males and Jack got mad boosties.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think everything we said today was correct,

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Speaker 2: no matter, even though we didn't know the results of

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Speaker 2: certain games. But look, I'm pretty sure we nailed it.

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Speaker 2: Where do people find you, follow you, read you, listen

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Speaker 2: to you all? How do they experience the Harrison Fagan Enterprise.

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Speaker 1: Yeah you can. You can read me and a bunch

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Speaker 1: of others at sp nation dot com during the during

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, and then we have a bunch of team

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Speaker 1: sites as well. Like Maps Moneyball had a really good

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Speaker 1: story up today on why the Maps should be taken

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Speaker 1: seriously as real contenders and like they have a real

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Speaker 1: shot to win the whole thing, and uh yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean you can yell at me on Twitter at h

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Speaker 1: M F A I G E N. If you think

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Speaker 1: that the Lakers should not sort of tank tonight's playing game,

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Speaker 1: feel free just jump in a lot of people have

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Speaker 1: been doing it and uh yeah, you know, check out

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Speaker 1: like the silver screen and role playback screen, which I

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Speaker 1: will be jumping on sometimes during the playoffs. Beautiful.

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Speaker 2: You can follow the show by following the hashtag Mad

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Speaker 2: Bootys BW s t I show links and updates.

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Speaker 1: You can find me at Miles of Gray on Twitter.

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Speaker 3: I'm at Jack Underscore Obrian and that's gonna do it.

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Speaker 3: Another one in the books in the bottom of the

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Speaker 3: net Swish.

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Speaker 1: Boom Street Music.

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Speaker 2: Call me go Hie bastian Bach because we'll be back

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Speaker 2: next week with a whole another episode.

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Speaker 3: Miles and Jego on Mad Boosties sick Wow, we pitched

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Speaker 3: a perfect game, ain't that last closing?

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Speaker 1: Look?

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Speaker 2: I gotta I gotta get a back. It's sort of

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Speaker 2: like Seinfelip. There's this Superman reference somewhere in every episode.

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Speaker 2: There is a Johann Sebastian Bach reference. In every single

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Speaker 2: episode of Mad Boosti's real fans, no, okay of check

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Speaker 2: the tapes, all right, we'll see some twish dunk Swish

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Speaker 2: dunk dunk dunk shoot, as they say in Japan.

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Speaker 1: Mm hmmm hmmm