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Speaker 1: This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up? Straight fire? Bam, It's me Jason McIntyre,

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Speaker 2: Straight Bowyer for Tuesday, February the third. Oh boy, holy

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Speaker 2: Toledo strap in NBA trade deadline, getting fired up. Got

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Speaker 2: some stuff popping just about midnight on the East Coast.

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Speaker 2: We'll get to this James hardened bombshell in a moment.

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Speaker 2: We will talk college basketball. You hear me whine and

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Speaker 2: cry like a little Yeah. I can't say that about

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Speaker 2: the Kansas Texas Tech game. Oh that was a bad beat.

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Speaker 2: But I just one NFL nugget. Obviously it's Super Bowl week.

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Speaker 2: Everybody's geeked, folks. The NFL announced on Monday they will

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Speaker 2: play nine international games in twenty twenty six, nine four

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Speaker 2: different continents. What are we doing, guys? One game will

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Speaker 2: be played in Australia, featuring the Rams. Do you know

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Speaker 2: how far the flight is from LA to Australia? What

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Speaker 2: are they gonna get two weeks off after that game?

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Speaker 2: What insanity they will have? The NFL will have one

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Speaker 2: game in Rio de Janeiro, one in Munich, Germany, three

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Speaker 2: in London. Let me guess a heavy dose of the

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Speaker 2: Browns the Raiders and the Saints ship them over to London.

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Speaker 2: One in Madrid, Spain, One in Paris, France. The New

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Speaker 2: Orleans Saints will be in that game. One in Mexico City, folks.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I know that the NFL is really trying

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Speaker 2: hard to increase their global brand. It's okay to admit

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Speaker 2: the NBA and Soccer Foot Bowl are global sports. The

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Speaker 2: NFL in a global sport. Yes, you'll have pockets of

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Speaker 2: fans caring about the NFL in other parts of the globe.

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Speaker 2: But Australia, cricket, rugby, huge football. You're gonna find some

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Speaker 2: people like the NFL, sure, but it's it's not gonna

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Speaker 2: be like the number one or even the number two

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Speaker 2: sport ever in Australia. It's just not. I mean, Brazil,

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Speaker 2: You're going into soccer country and pushing football. I just

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Speaker 2: don't get it. Like yeah, okay, enough anyways, let's move

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Speaker 2: to the NBA, where the big bomb dropped so interestingly

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Speaker 2: yesterday Monday afternoon. Interesting story drops from Chris Mannix at SI.

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Speaker 2: Chris Mannix, longtime NBA guy, He's been on the pod,

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Speaker 2: he had been a reporter. He's not like one of

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Speaker 2: these Woje shams guys where it's like every single thing

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Speaker 2: is reporting that's not his brand. He has some takes.

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Speaker 2: But interestingly, he dropped a nugget that said the LA

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Speaker 2: Clippers and Cleveland Cavaliers were in discussions for a sizeable

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Speaker 2: deal potentially between James Harden and Darius Garland. Now, unbelievably,

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Speaker 2: as luck would have it, the salaries are close enough

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Speaker 2: that it appears this could just be just a clean swap.

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Speaker 2: James Harden on the books for thirty nine point one

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Speaker 2: this year, interestingly, has a player option for forty two

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Speaker 2: next year. And if you look at the Calves, Darius

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Speaker 2: Garland on the hook this year for thirty nine to four,

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Speaker 2: but then he has two more years at a total

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Speaker 2: of eighty six mil eighty six and a half minus.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, hey, we'll just go eighty seven mil. So

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Speaker 2: it's possible they could do a swap straight up. And instantly,

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Speaker 2: as I read this, Chris mannic Scoop, I'm like, wait

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Speaker 2: a minute, Harden is thirty six, Garland is twenty six,

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Speaker 2: So the Calves want to get older. Huh? Do they

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Speaker 2: feel like they're that close to a title? No, this

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Speaker 2: has to be something about the second apron or getting

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Speaker 2: out of the luxury tax, which is what the DeAndre

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Speaker 2: scrambling to make sense of this, and that's when the

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Speaker 2: other leg fell about. Let's see, Mannix had it at

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Speaker 2: at like eleven o'clock and then Shams came in a

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Speaker 2: little bit after that with his report that the Clippers

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Speaker 2: and Harden are working through whether the sides can find

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Speaker 2: a deal by Thursday's trade deadline. No mention of the

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Speaker 2: Caves or Garland. Both sides are aligned in conversations together

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Speaker 2: and with interested teams. Here's the interesting part the Clippers

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Speaker 2: played last night. James Harden was away from the team.

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Speaker 2: They announced for personal reasons. Nothing else was said. You

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Speaker 2: want to take a gander at how the Clippers fared

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Speaker 2: last night. They were getting boxed and I mean just drilled,

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Speaker 2: total no show by the seventy six ers, and they

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Speaker 2: start to fight back in the fourth quarter. But this

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Speaker 2: is a seventy six ers team, obviously no Paul George.

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Speaker 2: They started Dominick Barlow, who had a really good game,

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Speaker 2: and it was basically the Kawhi Leonard show along with

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Speaker 2: Kobe Sanders. Is that the kid from Missouri, No Nevada.

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Speaker 2: I mean, listen, I don't know how the Clippers are

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Speaker 2: on some kind of tear here. They're just putting things

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Speaker 2: together with duct tape. It's like Jordan Miller Yannik Conan.

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Speaker 2: I don't even want to try to pronounce that final

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Speaker 2: the Clippers are doing here. But here's the worst pout

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Speaker 2: of about Garland. Garland is constantly injured. Darius Garland basically

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Speaker 2: has had like a toe issue. I was reading where

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Speaker 2: Darius Garland like really talented player and he's now hurt

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Speaker 2: and can barely go. So he's one of the reasons

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Speaker 2: that the Cavs stink this season. Well, they don't stink

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Speaker 2: relative to last season. They stink. But the big thing

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Speaker 2: is when these teams in the NBA gamble and say

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Speaker 2: we're all in, we're going Donovan Mitchell, we're paying Mobile,

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Speaker 2: we're paying Allen, we got Garland, and you don't get

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Speaker 2: next year there's regression. It's like, oh damn, now we're

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Speaker 2: we're in the luxury tax, we're also in the second

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Speaker 2: apron and now we gotta pay eighty million dollars. And

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Speaker 2: these billionaires who were excited about the prospect of contending,

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Speaker 2: when that falls apart, they're like, yeah, I'm not paying this.

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Speaker 2: Figure it out. Dump these guys, and so now Cleveland's scurrying.

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Speaker 2: They get off Hunter. There's a lot of chatter that

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Speaker 2: Mobli could be in a swap for Yannis, and I'm like, Mobli,

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Speaker 2: I floated Paalo bank Caro last week, and Paolo Bankro,

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Mobley's a great defensive player. You know, we'll

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Speaker 2: see if the offense ever comes around. But ben Caro

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Speaker 2: can carry you in a playoff series, Evan Mobley cannot.

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Speaker 2: Now will that change? Maybe Mobley's a really talented player.

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Speaker 2: He could certainly be a top twenty player in the league.

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Speaker 2: Ben Caro's ceiling is probably top ten. I mean there's

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Speaker 2: top seven now. Offensively, he's awesome. Obviously, there have been

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Speaker 2: problems this season in Orlando. They're not playing how they

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Speaker 2: had last year with him. They've got a lot of

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Speaker 2: new pieces. They're putting it all together, and I want

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Speaker 2: to say he's the odd man out. But that's why

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Speaker 2: I loaded ben Caro potentially for Yannis. I would ask you, guys,

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Speaker 2: if you've got the choice to build around Mobilian stuff

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Speaker 2: I'm always gonna lean to the offensive guy. But maybe

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Speaker 2: that's not how the Bucks see it, and maybe they

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Speaker 2: want Evan Mobley.

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Speaker 2: So what exactly are the Cavs doing here? Are they

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Speaker 2: actually trying to put something together where it's like, hey,

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Speaker 2: we got Hardened, we get him to opt out, we

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Speaker 2: get him on the cheap. Next year, maybe we bring

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Speaker 2: in as a guy's suggested to be on social media. Oh,

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Speaker 2: they could bring in Lebron on the cheap. So now

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Speaker 2: you've got Lebron, you've got Harden, you've got Donovan Mitchell,

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Speaker 2: and maybe you get Yannis And all of a sudden,

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Speaker 2: whoa in the East, An aging lebron an aging Harden,

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Speaker 2: a still prime Donovan Mitchell, and a prime Giannis. Holy hell,

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Speaker 2: that is quite the that's quite the lineup. Now, if

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Speaker 2: the Cavs pull that off, I mean I gotta look

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Speaker 2: up who their GM is. He deserves like GM of

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Speaker 2: the century. But uh, let's see. Yeah, I I the

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Speaker 2: idea that they would be able to now nothing, it's

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Speaker 2: not a lock. It's oh it's Mike Gansey is at

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Speaker 2: the former West Virginia legend. Yes, Sir played for the

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Speaker 2: Bonnies and then transferred to West Virginia. Was on that

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Speaker 2: incredible West Virginia team that went to Yes, they had

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Speaker 2: Kevin Pittsnogle and they lost in the regional finals to

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Speaker 2: Louisville in what I if memory serves, was an amazing game.

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Speaker 2: And I believe that was the year they beat Kentucky. Yeah, no,

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Speaker 2: that up on YouTube, and you know, once March rolls

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Speaker 2: around your boys on YouTube looking up like two thousand

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Speaker 2: and four West Virginia louisvo games. Mike Cansey was an incredible,

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Speaker 2: incredibly talented player six', four one of these White guards

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Speaker 2: who just didn't friggin, miss ended up going, undrafted played

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Speaker 2: the D League executive of The year in twenty. Seventeen

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Speaker 2: AND i don't, know maybe he's hatching what would be

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Speaker 2: some all time stuff if he's able to actually pull this.

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Speaker 2: Off Get hardened For garland and then you are somehow

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Speaker 2: able to Swap Evan mobley For giannis and then next

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Speaker 2: Year lebron comes. Home oh, man that would Be that

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Speaker 2: would be some crazy. Stuf it almost seems too far.

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Speaker 2: Fetched and remember they Got Donovan. Mitchell he's got his

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Speaker 2: throw A Hail. MARY i thought they would sooner Trade

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Speaker 2: mitchell and build Around, mobile but. SCREW i guess they're,

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Speaker 2: FOLKS i mean The celtics will be back With tatum And.

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Speaker 2: Brown The. Knicks it sounds like it sounds like The

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Speaker 2: knicks are gonna stand pat at least for. Now maybe

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Speaker 2: if they flop in The eastern conference finals or THE Nba,

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Speaker 2: finals that they, decide, hey we we want to go After.

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Speaker 2: Giannest maybe that happens in the. SUMMER i thought The

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Speaker 2: many more picks open. Up but it, also you, know

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Speaker 2: the more Time giannis has to think about, this the

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Speaker 2: more time he also has to, Say i'm not going To,

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Speaker 2: Cleveland i'm not going To. Orlando orlando send me to The.

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Speaker 2: KNICKS i don't want to go To. Okase and that's

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Speaker 2: the component THAT i haven't heard anybody. Answer i'm waiting

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Speaker 2: For windhorst Or shams or any of these guys to

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Speaker 2: Here but that goes back to the original. Point yannis

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Speaker 2: does not want to be the bad. Guy jannis refuses

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Speaker 2: to have people, say, oh well he forced his way out.

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Speaker 2: Again y, honest if you don't step up and do,

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Speaker 2: that maybe you do get shipped somewhere you don't want to,

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Speaker 2: go LIKE i don't, Know phoenix Or. Memphis obviously that's

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Speaker 2: not gonna. Happen but you, KNOW i keep Hearing shams

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Speaker 2: go on ON tv for These Sports center hits And he's,

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Speaker 2: like as of, now you know the same four teams

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Speaker 2: Knicks who would the other two The Heat nicks and

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Speaker 2: Essentially and THEN i come back to, This i'm, like,

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Speaker 2: guys we need to remember think back to The Damian lillard. Trade,

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Speaker 2: Okay Damian lillard kind of asked out Of, portland but

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Speaker 2: he also did not want to be the bad. Guy,

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Speaker 2: Now lillard was older Than, yannis but he was still

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Speaker 2: considered in his. Prime all we heard Was Miami, Heat Miami.

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Speaker 2: Heat he wants to go to The. Heat any reporter

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Speaker 2: works just. Fine what were the teams in the weeks leading?

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Speaker 2: harden And Nonovan mitchell And lebron And? Giannis the better? Way, honestly,

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Speaker 2: Live let me just wrap up with a quick college basketball.

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Speaker 2: Note so you know on the, SITE i wrote Up

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Speaker 2: kansas Against Texas, tech great Game monday, night And Texas

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Speaker 2: tech was favored by four four and a. Half Ken

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Speaker 2: What i'm gonna go money line because This Darren peterson,

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Speaker 2: SITUATION i don't know what to make. It Darren, peterson

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Speaker 2: he played brilliantly for twenty minutes On saturday AGAINST. Byu

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Speaker 2: he missed the final sixteen minutes with a. Hamstring he's

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Speaker 2: right so he's been cautious because he's the number one.

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Speaker 2: Pick if he goes down for the season or four,

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Speaker 2: weeks six, Weeks kansas is not winning the title without

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Speaker 2: him with. Him oh my, gosh they're. Ridiculous he is

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Speaker 2: the best player in the. COUNTRY i, mean he'd he

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Speaker 2: put that on display AGAINST AJ Debantsa byu And boozer is.

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Speaker 2: Excellent but this kid is. Unbelievable it was unclear if

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Speaker 2: he was going to play Against Texas Tech. Monday, okay

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Speaker 2: SO i, said let me Go Texas. Tech money. Line

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Speaker 2: kansas was as a four and a half point. Dog

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Speaker 2: they hadn't won a road game as that big of

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Speaker 2: a dog since twenty. Eighteen all signs pointed To Texas tech,

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Speaker 2: here so the. Game they flashed the starting lineups on

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Speaker 2: the screen as the game's about to tip, off And

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Speaker 2: Texas tech's second best, Player Christian, anderson mysteriously is not

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Speaker 2: in the, game and they're, like, Oh Christian anderson is

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Speaker 2: not going to play tonight with an. ILLNESS i go,

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Speaker 2: ONLINE i search, NOTHING i go on social, MEDIA i

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Speaker 2: search nothing zero about. This they, say, oh he's got an. Illness,

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Speaker 2: okay let me, see so he Played, Saturday christian Anders

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Speaker 2: it's a dynamic. Guard oh he's so, good but forty

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Speaker 2: HERE i was totally thrown off by. That, Instantly i'm,

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Speaker 2: like this BET's a. Loser, Nevertheless Texas, tech WHICH i

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Speaker 2: bet to win The. NATTY i have futures on a

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Speaker 2: bunch of, teams But Texas TECH i took last. Week

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Speaker 2: they're very.

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Speaker 1: GOOD.

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Speaker 2: Jt toppin is. Excellent they've got a lot of, dudes

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Speaker 2: and they play that they're just. Dogs so tie game at, halftime, Right, no,

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Speaker 2: No i'm. Sorry kansas was up by three and a half

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Speaker 2: and then they go up fall five or, so and

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Speaker 2: then boom it was an eleven nothing. Run Texas tech

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Speaker 2: takes control of the. Game around the seven sixteen minute.

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Speaker 2: Mark they are up By they led by ten with

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Speaker 2: nine minutes, left they were up seven with six minutes,

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Speaker 2: left and with two twenty six to. GO. Jt Topp

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Speaker 2: it makes this running one Hander they're up by. Five i'm,

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Speaker 2: like all, right good, THING i bet money line because

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Speaker 2: they ain't. Covering you, know there's no way they're holding Off.

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Speaker 2: Kansas they didn't score again in the final two twenty.

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Speaker 2: Six kansas ends the game on an eight nothing. Run

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Speaker 2: and here's the worst. Part So Texas tech wins a

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Speaker 2: challenge and then they have to throw the ball in

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Speaker 2: and they screw it, up turns it over To. Kansas

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Speaker 2: guess what. Happens kansas down. Three Darren peterson on a

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Speaker 2: Corner so now we're tied at sixty one with a

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Speaker 2: minute twenty, left And i'm, like we're. Cooked it's so.

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Speaker 2: Over and of Course Christian anderson the guard really missed.

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Speaker 2: Him he's clutched down the, stretch not. There offense looks

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Speaker 2: clunky top and misses a. Hook here Comes. Kansas i'ming, like,

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Speaker 2: listen we really need. Overtime here can we get? Overtime

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Speaker 2: Darren peterson fast break just pulls up for three. SPLASH i,

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Speaker 2: mean the, guy he's the best player in the, country

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Speaker 2: and he cooks him with back to back three's in

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Speaker 2: the final ninety seconds And kansas wins by. Three AND i, listen,

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Speaker 2: man college basketball had a really good run in Late

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Speaker 2: december Early january for, bets and this last Week i'm

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Speaker 2: like two and. Five i'm so. Pissed, listen this is

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Speaker 2: what happens you know you're gonna miss, Some you're gonna hit.

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Speaker 2: SOME i felt it was a good. READ i don't,

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Speaker 2: OBVIOUSLY i don't need to justify the. LOSS i, mean

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Speaker 2: you can tell That i'm. Pissed But Darren, peterson the

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Speaker 2: big part picture takeaway Is Darren peterson is the number

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Speaker 2: one player in the country and he will, BE i,

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Speaker 2: believe the number one pick in the. Draft you gotta go.

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Speaker 2: GUARD i, mean how many times have we seen? It

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Speaker 2: you have to go guard over. Big do not make

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Speaker 2: the mistake of taking a big. Listen boozer's. Awesome by the,

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Speaker 2: WAY i don't Consider Cooper flag a. Big he handles

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Speaker 2: and is being point guard at times for The Dallas.

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Speaker 2: Mavericks he's a wing to. Me boozer is he can,

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Speaker 2: handle but he's Not Cooper. Flag he's more of a.

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Speaker 2: Big SO i would CERTAINLY i would actually Go debanza And,

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Speaker 2: peterson and THEN i would Go boozer. Third not a

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Speaker 2: bad consolation, prize but historically we've seen guards at the

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Speaker 2: top out before bigs and my BIG i mean back

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Speaker 2: to the basket, guys, centers power. FORWARDS i would Put

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Speaker 2: booger in like the three four. Hybrid, yeah, Listen they're

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Speaker 2: all going to be very. Good March madnis is gonna be.

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Speaker 2: Bonkers i'm just telling you guys that right, now like

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Speaker 2: you gotta strap. In you look at the top of Ken.

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Speaker 2: Pom there are ten teams with an over thirty net rating.

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Speaker 2: Ten that number is. Ridiculous last year there were. Six

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Speaker 2: this year there are. Ten, Obviously michigan can win it.

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Speaker 2: All arizona's. Undefeated they definitely Can. Duke certainly Can Iowa.

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Speaker 2: STATE i got burned by them in the tournament last,

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Speaker 2: year So i'm still a little. SALTY i Like illinois a.

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Speaker 2: Lot number one offense in the, Country, Houston Kelvin, Sampson

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Speaker 2: they're always going to be. There florida has six losses

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Speaker 2: because they played a lethal, schedule and they are the

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Speaker 2: seventh ranked team In Ken. Pom purdue has struggled a little.

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Speaker 2: Bit they were the preseason number. One they are eighth

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Speaker 2: in the, country number two in. Offense Michigan, state WHICH

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Speaker 2: i had Them friday against The. Wolverines they, did they

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Speaker 2: lost at, home tough, one And connecticut is. Ten they're

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Speaker 2: twenty one and. One that doesn't even Include gonzaga Or

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Speaker 2: kansas Or, nebraska which was unbeaten until like five days. Ago,

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Speaker 2: folks college basketball is off the hook this. SEASON i

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Speaker 2: know you don't care and blah blah, blah you're not in.

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Speaker 1: It that's.

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Speaker 2: Fine i'm saying you're missing out on a lot of. Fun,

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Speaker 2: obviously it's not fun to lose. Bets but college basketball

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Speaker 2: is just on a tear right, now all right back.

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Speaker 2: Tomorrow