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Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome in side hour three The Jason Smith Show

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Speaker 1: Jason Period, Alex Tyshirt, Yes question, yes answer Tyres Albert.

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Speaker 5: He's been tweeting.

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Speaker 1: Ah, Yes, a very special someone has been tweeting, and

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Speaker 1: I would say I'll give you a guarantee.

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Speaker 4: I will give you a guarantee. We have two hours

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Speaker 4: left in tonight show.

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Speaker 1: I will say, not once, but twice, will we get

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Speaker 1: to focus on what one specific special person is tweeting.

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Speaker 2: You're falling along with Elon Musk too.

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Speaker 4: I'll give you a Trump or Musk right now. Eight seven,

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Speaker 4: seven ninety nine on Fox. Who you got Jason?

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Speaker 2: Who gets to be custody of Joe Rogan?

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Speaker 1: I didn't see. I think it's too early for custody. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I think it's too early for custos. I think we

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Speaker 1: have to wait a little bit and see.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 1: It's like one of those I don't know that I

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Speaker 1: want is I want to see where the dust settles.

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Speaker 1: Then I'm going to see who I really want to say,

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Speaker 1: who I want to get behind that that's what I want.

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Speaker 1: That's how this is gonna go.

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Speaker 4: I gotta wait.

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Speaker 1: I can't give you an answer right now. I'll get

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Speaker 1: a let all my calls go to voicemail. I'll let

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Speaker 1: you know when I make a decision, but it might

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Speaker 1: not be for a little bit.

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Speaker 6: My man, this is supposed to be about the greatness

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Speaker 6: of Indiana basketball.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Definitely signing with Michael Conforta.

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't know what's better today for the

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Speaker 1: Pacers and the Thunder or musk and trumpet.

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Speaker 4: I don't know what was a better battle.

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Speaker 6: For that was the hell of the Battleford finally got one, man,

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Speaker 6: I'll tell you yes, Yes, congratulations, Yes, the Dodger dagger

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Speaker 6: hurt more.

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Speaker 2: Mike hal Burton to the Thunder or Confordo to Jason.

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Speaker 4: Do you think, dude, we split?

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Speaker 1: I know it.

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Speaker 2: Because only you care about playoff baseball. In June you

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Speaker 2: were no.

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Speaker 4: No.

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Speaker 1: You can't sit here and say either either it's it's

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Speaker 1: unimportant to you or it's not. No, you just want

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Speaker 1: to say last night, last night you said, Jason, I

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Speaker 1: can't believe you were doing this with a with a

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Speaker 1: with a series and nobody cares. Nobody doesn't matter, it

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter. But now today you want him. You mentioned

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Speaker 1: Michael Conforto's name. I think more than I mentioned Michael

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Speaker 1: Conforto's name when he was a met. Now this category

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Speaker 1: you got to pick a lane for either either you

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Speaker 1: split the series and you are all we won, or

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Speaker 1: oh it doesn't matter. But you can't sit here and say,

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Speaker 1: oh it doesn't matter when we lose, but we win.

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Speaker 6: We got to figure out how to get AI to

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Speaker 6: be able to research our eleven years on the air,

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Speaker 6: because I gotta guarantee you an awful lot of Conforto

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Speaker 6: a run in this particular case, this is clearly Frostburg

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Speaker 6: just giving you the needle.

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Speaker 2: You used to kick us out of the studio is

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Speaker 2: to have ten seconds of a long time to Conforto highlights.

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Speaker 4: I know.

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Speaker 1: I think if you look, pulled the shades and everything

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Speaker 1: the Confordo mentioned spiked in twenty fifteen, and then I

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Speaker 4: Went away after that. It's not like Lindor, you know,

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Speaker 4: It's not like I'm saying that. It's not like de gram.

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Speaker 2: Come on, That's what it is. That's why it hurts

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Speaker 2: a god that's been washed up for ten years beat.

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Speaker 1: You, okay and starting for you. So what does that

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Speaker 1: say about your team? It says we just won a

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Speaker 1: world series, Dude, I don't know what it says. They

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Speaker 1: don't care about basketball and we have we have, we

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Speaker 1: have a better record than you do, and we beat

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Speaker 1: you in the season series. What else do I need

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Speaker 1: to say right now?

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Speaker 4: Really? What else I need to say?

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Speaker 2: Just say you suck.

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Speaker 4: I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: He loves that. Take the l just like the fund

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Speaker 2: Man tonight that matters is on the thunder is the

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Speaker 2: only actually, you know, the sports world give it and

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Speaker 2: to take it away. I was just talking to Brianna.

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Speaker 6: She's going through the calls and highlights and post and

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Speaker 6: everything of you know, we have this because this now

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Speaker 6: extends our series. We're getting at least five games people, Okay,

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Speaker 6: so all the sweep and thoughts that that at least

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Speaker 6: gets us an extra week of basketball talk, because that's

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Speaker 6: how they schedule it, right. It's like once a week

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Speaker 6: that they'll actually play a game, so we we get

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Speaker 6: more of that. But meanwhile, all the B and C

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Speaker 2: At whatever, those go away. So there's balance in the force.

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Speaker 1: Are you talking about the team that's going to bring

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Speaker 1: balance to the Fauldt Yes, I'm talking very much so

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Speaker 1: about Tyrese Haliburton, who seduced and murdered.

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Speaker 4: A young MVP named Shaye Gilgers. Alexander. What I told

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Speaker 4: you was true from a certain point of view.

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Speaker 1: The old from a certain point of view, is one

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Speaker 1: of the least quoted and remembered lines that just said

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Speaker 1: so much about it all.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that was just so stupid.

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Speaker 2: Not a point of view.

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Speaker 1: How do I get out of this? It was true

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Speaker 1: from a certain point of view. That's like a high

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Speaker 1: school that's like a high school thing.

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Speaker 2: And this is no, no, no, That's how you get

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Speaker 6: So now you have a little bit of reasonable doubt

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Speaker 6: and you just got your client off for imperial grinds.

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Speaker 4: I just I just told you what was true, for

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Speaker 4: it was true from a certain point of view.

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Speaker 2: From the way I saw it. I don't know what

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Speaker 2: that's true.

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Speaker 1: What the hell are you talking about a certain point

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Speaker 1: of Because it gets back to the costanza.

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Speaker 2: You're not lying if you believe it's true.

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Speaker 1: So we got Rick Buker coming up in about fifteen

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Speaker 1: minutes for all the big breakdown of game one, and

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Speaker 1: let's just say take it away from from the Pacers

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Speaker 1: and the thunder and then and the the.

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Speaker 4: Heroics of Halliburton the Pacers for a second.

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Speaker 1: The one thing I really don't want to hear for

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Speaker 1: this five because it's already the big it's the big crescendo.

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Speaker 1: That's building that build towards this. Oh it's Indiana, Oklahoma

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Speaker 1: City and the finals. The ratings, the ratings, ratings aren't

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Speaker 1: gonna be be better if the Knicks are And of

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Speaker 1: course the ratings are better if the Nicks are in.

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Speaker 1: But you know what I mean, really, at this point

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Speaker 1: the two things. I don't want to hear anything about

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Speaker 1: the ratings because one, have we figured out the best

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Speaker 1: way to measure ratings so many, so many places now

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Speaker 1: it's not just look at the Neils. Of course, Nielsen

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Speaker 1: ratings are down. Nielsen ratings are down everyone, but look,

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Speaker 1: no one's right, it's the lowest rate thing. But you

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Speaker 1: don't count how many people are consuming the NBA Finals,

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Speaker 1: different platforms, Like this is kind of how it's done now, right,

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Speaker 1: you can't count, but people are listening.

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Speaker 4: On the radio. That doesn't take into a calp so

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Speaker 4: no one's watching.

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Speaker 1: No one's watching, right, I mean, there's so many different

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Speaker 1: ways to look at ratings now. It's like anytime you

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Speaker 1: see just see the Nielsen's, Like, boy, it feels kind

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Speaker 1: of antiquated, doesn't it, Like, oh the Nielsen, Yeah, if

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Speaker 1: this was nineteen ninety three, I would say, you're right,

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Speaker 1: look at this deal. Because you were either watching this

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Speaker 1: game on television on Channel seven, or you were listening

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Speaker 1: That was all you could do.

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Speaker 6: Went to that very conference a couple of weeks ago

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Speaker 6: in Chicago, and it basically they had a guy from

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Speaker 6: Nielsen feared for him.

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Speaker 2: A couple of times his guys were asking.

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Speaker 6: This started to get a little I don't know, it's

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Speaker 6: personal and angry for your individual market. And he kept

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Speaker 6: trying to diffuse. I'm like, yeah, no, I don't know this.

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Speaker 6: I mean this is fun and entertaining to me, but

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Speaker 6: it sounds like someone's really got a problem because he's

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Speaker 6: trying to push a sale through and they're fighting about

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Speaker 6: Nielsen ratings and you don't have this and don't have that,

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Speaker 6: and you've got no way to tweak that to get

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Speaker 1: So it started getting contentions and we're all looking at it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is the one you got to take offline.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 1: The other part of it is this right, because look,

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Speaker 1: it's hard to say what's accurate, right, But the other

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Speaker 1: part of it is this is that I feel like

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Speaker 1: Kevin Durant does. You don't like it, don't watch it's it? Right,

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Speaker 1: and enough people are watching it's a big deal. Like

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Speaker 1: this is still it's great basketball.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 1: We saw the Pacers to do it, so we've never

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Speaker 1: seen a team like this in the playoffs. All they're different,

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Speaker 1: come from behind wins and last second gaps. And here's

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Speaker 1: the MVP and Shay Gildess Alexander like this is a

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Speaker 1: and this team, this Oklahoma City Thunder team is almost

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Speaker 1: perfectly constructed, and still they're facing a one game to

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Speaker 1: none deficit in the NBA Finals. Like this is basketball

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Speaker 1: how it's supposed to be. Man, I love it. People

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Speaker 1: are watching, love it? Okay, all right, I mean here's

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Speaker 1: the thing. What do you want people to talk about

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Speaker 1: if no one where's everybody going, if they're not watching

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Speaker 1: the NBA Finals, what what should you talk about instead?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 2: What should we talk about on sports talk radio.

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Speaker 1: On TV, instaid, everybody who's going, they're all watching something else,

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Speaker 1: right there?

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Speaker 4: Watch an they've gone to watch late major League baseball.

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Speaker 1: Hey, I'm watching the Giants and the A's on on

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Speaker 1: on a on a local regional cable sports network. But

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Speaker 1: it's not like people, you don't like it, don't watch it, right,

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Speaker 1: don't don't watch it. But this is it's incredible basketball,

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Speaker 1: and it's it's something that you can appreciate. And I

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Speaker 1: It is Rick Buker, And here I was, Rick thought, well,

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Speaker 9: In the in the postseason.

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Speaker 10: It was like, I can't play Landry Shamitt, I can't

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Speaker 10: play Delon right Oh, I mean I have to Okay, I.

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Speaker 9: Guess I will. Oh, hey, these guys can play a

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Speaker 9: little bit.

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Speaker 10: I mean, if you're Leon Rose over there, you're going

447
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Speaker 10: I gave you, I gave you everything that you needed,

448
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Speaker 10: and you still can't get past the Indiana Pacers. We

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Speaker 10: need to make a change. And to answer your question,

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Speaker 10: I was gonna be I was gonna be really cynical with.

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Speaker 9: Your first question.

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Speaker 10: I was gonna go, does it really matter? Does it

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Speaker 10: really matter? But I have a hard time believing that

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Speaker 10: they are going to go to a Mike Brown or

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Speaker 10: a Mike Malone, somebody who's in the who's in the

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Speaker 10: vein of Tom Sibado comes from the same school, and

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Speaker 10: generally the way these things go is if you have

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Speaker 10: like a tough, defensive, no nonsense coach, then you bring

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Speaker 10: in a players coach, or if it's a player's coach,

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Speaker 10: if it's Mike d'An toni, then you bring in somebody

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Speaker 10: who's more more of a hard ass. I am really

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Speaker 10: intrigued by the idea, and I think Peter Vessie was

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Speaker 10: the first one to float it out. There is U

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Speaker 10: is the possibility of.

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Speaker 9: Jay Wright coming in and coaching the Villanova guys.

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Speaker 10: I would be prize if they didn't try to go

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Speaker 10: to to a new wrinkle and because and and the

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Speaker 10: big part with with Malone is if you're a GM

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Speaker 10: and you know that he had a toxic relationship with

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Speaker 10: his previous GM and the players were not unhappy to

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Speaker 10: see him go, Like, is that, no matter how successful

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Speaker 10: he's been, no matter how good he's been, is that

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Speaker 10: someone that you want to bring in? And I think

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Speaker 10: what we're seeing with all of these you know, you

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Speaker 10: look at the guys that are the candidates for UH

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Speaker 10: for Phoenix, and you look at Johnny Bryant, who's a

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Speaker 10: candidate for the next job. It's about relationships, and it's

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Speaker 10: about relationships with the GM and ownership and that in

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Speaker 10: today's world counts almost as much as as as as

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Speaker 10: success and the ability to coach, because what we have

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Speaker 10: now is we have these elaborate teams with all of

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Speaker 10: the you know, advanced medical staff and nine or ten

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Speaker 10: you know people on the coaching staff and then businesses,

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Speaker 10: and your head coach is at the center of all that.

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Speaker 10: He has to have healthy relationships with everybody. He is

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Speaker 10: the center point of all of that, with your players,

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Speaker 10: with your front office, with your medical staff, with the media.

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Speaker 10: And if that person is not somebody you're comfortable having

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Speaker 10: a relationship with and somebody who builds healthy relationships, then

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Speaker 10: you're going to have You're gonna have trouble putting your

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Speaker 10: team together. And that's not That's not the way it was.

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Speaker 10: You know, when I first got into the business, it

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Speaker 10: really was you hired a head coach who was going

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Speaker 10: to tell everybody this is how I do things, and

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Speaker 10: he had a big hand and who was hired. And

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Speaker 10: it was also a very smaller operation, so there weren't

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Speaker 10: as many people to deal with. That's changed, and so

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Speaker 10: it really comes down to who are you comfortable with

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Speaker 10: and who do you think is going to be malleable

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Speaker 10: enough to to make it work and to take advice,

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Speaker 10: insight strategy from your GM and your owner and other

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Speaker 10: people in the in the in the organization rather than

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Speaker 10: taking more of my way or the highway approach.

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Speaker 1: Now way, Rick, I thought I saw on your on

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Speaker 1: the Ball podcast you reported today that the Knicks we're

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Speaker 1: going to get Steve Kerr and Steph Curry from Golden State.

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Speaker 4: I thought you had that in there.

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Speaker 10: Did you say that you know what it would be

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Speaker 10: a it would be Classic Knicks to get those two

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Speaker 10: guys at the coin because they are they are certain

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Speaker 10: not to meet expectations. The good news is we got

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Speaker 10: Steve Kerr and Steph Curry. The bad news is both

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Speaker 10: of them are retiring from a year from now.

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Speaker 9: And they're going to give us nothing.

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Speaker 4: In the news.

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Speaker 6: It's almost as good as that recirculating rumor that they

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Speaker 6: tried to bring in Kevin Durant at the trade line.

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Speaker 10: Yes, yes, yes, exactly, I mean, and that's I mean,

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Speaker 10: that's a that's a great that's a great comparison, because

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Speaker 10: I think that at this stage, everybody's making a big

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Speaker 10: deal about you know, where's Katie gonna go and is

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Speaker 10: he gonna is he gonna you know, elevate elevate the

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Speaker 10: next team? You know, can you go to Can you

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Speaker 10: go to Minnesota and join uh and join aunt and

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Speaker 10: and take that team to the finals. And I'm I'm thinking,

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Speaker 10: have we have we not been paying attention? The Phoenix

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Speaker 10: Suns sent Michael Bridges and Cam Johnson to the Brooklyn

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Speaker 10: Brooklyn Nets after going to the second round of.

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Speaker 9: The playoffs, and then the following season at.

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Speaker 10: The trade deadline, they traded those gut ties along with

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Speaker 10: Jay Crowder essentially to get Kevin Durant, and they went

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Speaker 10: to the the second round of the playoffs, and then

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Speaker 10: the next year they got knocked out in the first round.

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Speaker 10: They got swept by the Minnesota Timberwolves.

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Speaker 9: And then, of course we know what happened this year.

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Speaker 10: They didn't They didn't make the play in or the

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Speaker 10: playoffs or any postseason action. So this idea that KD

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Speaker 10: is a game changer, He's still putting up amazing numbers,

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Speaker 10: but that he is a game changer when it comes

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Speaker 10: to the trajectory of your team. I just don't know

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Speaker 10: that we have any recent evidence of that.

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Speaker 1: Rick, Rick, we should be doing I said that the

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Speaker 1: other night, we should be doing a podcast together.

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Speaker 4: We should as we do.

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Speaker 1: I said, I like KD, but boy, he hasn't been

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Speaker 1: a game changer in six years. You got to go

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Speaker 1: back to twenty nineteen, the last time that he went

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Speaker 1: in and changed the fortunes of a franchise. It should

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Speaker 1: be on the ball, well, on the ball squaredes you

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Speaker 1: and Matt Buker on the ball to the fourth power

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Speaker 1: will be you and I do the podcast.

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Speaker 10: You know, there are many things, Jason, that I would

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Speaker 10: be comfortable.

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Speaker 9: Doing with you, going and having a cup of coffee.

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Speaker 10: Lunch, I know, bowling, laundry, laundry, I'd I'd be okay, laundry,

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Speaker 10: doing podcast podcast, not on the list, but.

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Speaker 4: Doing a podcast. Now you come on the show every

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Speaker 4: week with us.

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Speaker 10: It's just I know and this is this is so

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Speaker 10: this is so good.

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Speaker 9: I wouldn't want to ruin it. Okay, there's such a thing.

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Speaker 10: There's too much of a good thing like this is

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Speaker 10: just perfect. This this, this little nugget every week. It's

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Speaker 10: just it's a delightful morsel. I don't I couldn't.

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Speaker 9: I don't think I could do a full meal.

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Speaker 6: All right, now, last for here, I was saying it

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Speaker 6: as a full compliment of me being a great buffer.

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Speaker 2: I was only going to get a bit of women.

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Speaker 10: That was the most genuine noise ever.

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Speaker 1: All right, okay, okay, hey, like I understand, I understand

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Speaker 1: all the like, I understand all the ideas I give

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Speaker 1: you for your podcast.

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Speaker 4: When you come on the show. I got thank you,

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Speaker 4: I thank you.

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Speaker 10: I like you as a ghostwriter.

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Speaker 1: So so now to get back to look ahead of

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Speaker 1: game two. Now, this is it now for Oklahoma City, Rick,

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Speaker 1: can you see what happens when you lose the first

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Speaker 1: two games at home and have to go and win

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Speaker 1: in Indiana. What do you expect to see in game

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Speaker 1: two different from game one?

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Speaker 9: Ah?

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Speaker 10: Boy, it's a great question, and I wish I had

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Speaker 10: an answer for you, because this is the one issue

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Speaker 10: that I have with Oklahoma City's offense is that it

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Speaker 10: is it's not hard to figure out they're really good,

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Speaker 10: but they're essentially playing pick and roll and playing off

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Speaker 10: of that and the fact that they have I think

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Speaker 10: Andrew Nemhart and aaron Ne Smith one, the job they

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Speaker 10: did against your Nicks is vastly underrated, and they are

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Speaker 10: so much better than Jaden McDaniels and Nikeel Alexander Walker,

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Speaker 10: who were the two primary defenders that OKAC saw in

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Speaker 10: the last series, and then you had you had Christian

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Speaker 10: Brown with the Denver Nuggets. I think you have defenders,

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Speaker 10: multiple defenders that can really do a number on SGA.

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Speaker 10: And then with Obi Toppin. Sorry, I know that this

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Speaker 10: is the source of subject.

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Speaker 9: Obi Toppin and.

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Speaker 10: And Pascal Siakam. You can play, you can play the

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Speaker 10: pick and roll, and you can switch it and you

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Speaker 10: don't lose anything. So I think there are like I

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Speaker 10: still thought, okay, see, was they were going to win

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Speaker 10: the series. I was hoping and had reason to believe

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Speaker 10: that it could go six or seven. And I'm not

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Speaker 10: giving you an answer to what we're going to see

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Speaker 10: from OKAC because I'm not really certain how much they

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Speaker 10: can change. They had a huge advantage in the turnovers

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Speaker 10: and couldn't and couldn't translate those into points. And in

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Speaker 10: the playoffs, far and away they were the best team

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Speaker 10: getting points off of scoring points off of turnovers. They

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Speaker 10: averaged twenty four points a game on points off of turnovers,

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Speaker 10: and that's almost a fourth of your scoring. And my

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Speaker 10: feeling was if Indiana could turn that faucet off and

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Speaker 10: make them try to get those points in the half court,

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Speaker 10: but that would go a long way toward making this game,

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Speaker 10: this series competitive. So I'm going to be as interested

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Speaker 10: as you to find out what Oklahoma City does. I

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Speaker 10: think Indiana can actually play better, but I'm not sure

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Speaker 10: what Oklahoma City can do different other than one potentially

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Speaker 10: shoot the three a little bit better, and then they're

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Speaker 10: going to have to defend the three a lot better.

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Speaker 10: But that means guarding five guys who potentially can hit

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Speaker 10: that shot and the other part is up and Tiger's

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Speaker 10: Haliburton because from what I saw, he was getting to

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Speaker 10: the paint, uh pretty pretty comfortably in this game. And

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Speaker 10: unless they can shut that off, that's gonna be a

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Speaker 10: problem too.

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Speaker 1: He's on Twitter at Rick Buker, that is at Rick Buker.

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Speaker 1: Check out the On the Ball podcast, my future podcast

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Speaker 1: partner Rick Bucker and I always.

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Speaker 4: Bringing you all the best NBA content.

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Speaker 10: That's right, that's right. The subhead also contributing, Yeah, also contributing,

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Speaker 10: Rick Buker.

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Speaker 2: Take it easy, buddy, We'll talk to you as the

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Speaker 2: series goes on.

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Speaker 4: Thanks rag top of you there it goes right, you know.

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Speaker 1: And the thing is Obie Topping, Like the Knicks got

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Speaker 1: rid of Obie Topping because there was no place for

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Speaker 1: him to play because they had Julius Randall. Like that

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Speaker 1: was the reason why. It's like, whether there's no they

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Speaker 1: play the same position. When Julius Randall's terrific, why we

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Speaker 1: we can't blame him. So he was a guy that

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Speaker 1: they can trade and now they don't have either of them.

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Speaker 6: Now there's only forty eight minutes in a game, and

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Speaker 6: then what are you gonna do now?

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Speaker 4: Uh?

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Speaker 1: Time not to find out what's trending in the wide

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Speaker 4: Got all the hi.

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Speaker 2: I like that.

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Speaker 11: I like that.

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Speaker 12: Tyrese Haliburn has tweeted, it's gotta be the shoes. So

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Speaker 12: apparently he had his shoes revealed today for the first time,

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Speaker 12: Puma Hallie ones, and he put them on the table

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Speaker 12: at his presser after the game. So maybe it's the shoes,

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Speaker 12: he says. But Caliburn with another game winner, Pacers another

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Speaker 12: comeback win. Nineteen turnovers in the first half did not

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Speaker 12: matter one bit.

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Speaker 11: They came back to defeat.

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Speaker 12: The Thunder went eleven to one to ten on a

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Speaker 12: jumper from Tyrese Haliburn, who ended with fourteen points and

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Speaker 12: ten rebounds. But they scored by committee. This is exactly

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Speaker 12: what they did in this game. Six players for Indiana

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Speaker 12: ended in double digits. In fact, the leading scorer was

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Speaker 12: Pascal Siakam for Indiana. He had nineteen points and eleven rebounds.

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Speaker 12: Leading scorer of the game, though, was shay Gilgi Alexander

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Speaker 12: with thirty eight points.

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Speaker 4: We just got to focus on being better.

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Speaker 7: The series is in first to one it's first of four,

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Speaker 7: so we have four more games together. They have three,

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Speaker 7: and that's just where we are. We got to understand that,

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Speaker 7: and we got to get to four before they get

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Speaker 7: the three. If we won to win MR Championship, and

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Speaker 7: it is that symbol. It's not rocket science. We lost

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Speaker 7: game one. We have to be better.

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Speaker 11: Well, du it's not rocket science. Yes, you have to

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Speaker 11: win four. Very good shy in Basel.

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Speaker 1: And this is also Montie where I'm sure Halliburton got

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Speaker 1: a text from his agent going, hey, dude, great idea.

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Speaker 1: If you pumped those shoes in the post game, presto,

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Speaker 1: I'll put them right on the table so everybody can

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Speaker 1: see them.

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Speaker 11: Absolutely, that's it.

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Speaker 2: That's Spikealy. You get any money for that.

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Speaker 4: He gotta be the shoes, gotta.

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Speaker 11: Be the shoes.

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Speaker 12: But the advertisement, it's done. It's out there. Everyone's going

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Speaker 12: to be.

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Speaker 11: Buying these shoes. In baseball. The Final Game. The final

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Speaker 11: game has wrapped up.

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Speaker 12: Astros top the Pirates eight to two, The Rays as

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Speaker 12: the Rangers four to three.

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Speaker 11: The Yankee shout out the Guardians four zero.

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Speaker 12: Max freed six innings, pitched, one hit, seven strikeouts. Guy

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Speaker 12: has an ERA of one point seven. To eight, and

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Speaker 12: Michael Confordo hit the go ahead RBI single in the

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Speaker 12: eighth inning as a Dodgers defeated them at six to five.

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Speaker 12: At the Women's College World Series Championship, Texas Tech edge

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Speaker 12: Texas four to three to force a Game three, which

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Speaker 12: will be tomorrow Friday in a best of three series.

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Speaker 12: In the NFL, Aaron Rodgers he is signing a one

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Speaker 12: year deal with the Steelers, and the Baltimore Ravens have

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Speaker 12: signed wide receiver Rashaan Bateman to a three year extension.

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Speaker 1: Back to you, guys, thanks a bunch monch Jason Smith

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Speaker 1: Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Coming

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Speaker 1: up next, we celebrate Game one of the NBA Finals

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Speaker 1: with the best way possible.

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Speaker 4: That's next right here, Jason.

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Speaker 3: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 3: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

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Speaker 3: pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, we'll get to Aaron Rodgers coming up in

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Speaker 1: about twelve minutes. But right now, it is time to

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Speaker 1: celebrate Game one of the NBA Finals the best way

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Speaker 1: we know how. All of the heroism all of the

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Speaker 1: drama by playing.

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Speaker 3: And now it's the Magic Johnson Twitter game.

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Speaker 1: No more obvious than vanilla tweeter in the world than

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Speaker 1: Magic Johnson. So we play the Magic Johnson Twitter game.

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Speaker 1: He has been tweeting up a storm since Game one

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Speaker 1: of the NBA Finals ends, So we get to play.

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Speaker 1: The game is pretty easy, or so you'd think. I

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Speaker 1: give you a tweet and you simply tell me if

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Speaker 1: it is a real Magic Johnson tweet or if it

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Speaker 1: is made up entirely by me playing as myself. Mike Harmon, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Justin Frosberg, Alex tishert are you ready?

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Speaker 2: Let's get it on.

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Speaker 1: The Pacer came back from a fifteen point deficit in

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Speaker 1: the second half to win the game.

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Speaker 2: Is that a Magic Johnson Yeah, tweet.

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Speaker 1: This the Pacers came back from a fifteen point deficit

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Speaker 1: in the second half to win the game.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Harmon says, yes.

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Speaker 2: Frostburg, well that's exactly what actually happened on the court.

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Speaker 2: So I'm gonna go yeah.

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Speaker 4: Okay, all right, tight shirt.

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Speaker 5: I don't believe he watched the game, Jason, Okay, well,

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Speaker 5: this doesn't seem like his forte Okay, I think he

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Speaker 5: needs more stardom, you know. Okay, all right, I don't

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Speaker 5: think Sga is in his wheelhouse or Halliburton.

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Speaker 1: Okayow, No, the Pacers came back from a fifteen point

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Speaker 1: deficit in the second half to win the game. That

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Speaker 1: is a magic Johnson tweet.

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Speaker 2: Yes, here we go.

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Speaker 1: What an incredible shot by Tyrese Halliburton to seal the

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Speaker 1: victory for the Indiana pay in Game one of the

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Speaker 1: NBA Finals. Is that a magic Johnson tweet?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: What an incredible shot by tyres Halliburton to seal the

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Speaker 1: victory for the Indiana Pacers in Game one of the

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Speaker 1: NBA Finals. All right, Harmon says, yes, Rosburg.

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Speaker 2: Just like last time, that is exactly what happened.

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Speaker 4: Okay, So.

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Speaker 2: Vanilla magic it.

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Speaker 4: Is, okay, all right, tight shirt.

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Speaker 2: Jason, you heard me. He did not watch this game.

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Speaker 4: Okay.

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Speaker 2: So now.

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Speaker 4: That is a magic Johnson tweet. There we go.

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Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, NBA fans, we have a series. Is that

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Speaker 1: a magic Johnson tweet? NBA fans, we have a series.

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Speaker 2: You stop it right now? Is he going by the

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Speaker 2: old definition?

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Speaker 4: Hey?

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Speaker 2: You know, as soon as the home team lose it?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, let's go for the trifecta.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I mean.

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Speaker 2: We do have a series.

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Speaker 13: We do we do so? Yeah, okay, tight shirt Jason. Yeah,

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Speaker 13: I don't think magic washing him. I know you don't

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Speaker 13: think magic watching.

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Speaker 2: No, did he have an exclamation point or a question mark?

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Speaker 2: We have a series of.

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Speaker 4: Forehead off, four s is and one exclamation point? What

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Speaker 4: about that? What if I just said that?

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Speaker 2: Okay, I changed my mind.

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Speaker 4: Yes that.

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Speaker 1: NBA fans, we have a series that is a magic

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Speaker 1: Johnson tweet?

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Speaker 4: Very nice.

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Speaker 2: Well, look he's not disappointing.

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, giving us exactly what the Billings says.

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Speaker 2: He's coming with the facts tonight.

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Speaker 1: Yeahs, Tyree's Halliburton does it again?

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Speaker 6: Is that a magic Johnson tweet? Is that a double

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Speaker 6: exclamation point or.

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Speaker 1: A Tyrese Halliburton does it again? I'll give you three

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Speaker 1: exclamation points?

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Speaker 4: Why not? Is that a yeah magic Johnson tweet?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 4: Okay, yes it is Frostburg.

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Speaker 2: Well, Tyres Halliburton did do it again?

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Speaker 4: Okay?

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Speaker 2: Oh yes, We're going to keep doing this, okay.

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Speaker 6: Which is funny because the back of the New York

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Speaker 6: Post is Pete and repeat picture of Pete Alonzo, Pete.

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Speaker 1: Falls out of a boat, Peat and repeater. That's one

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Speaker 1: of my favorite kid jokes of all time. Pete and

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Speaker 1: repeater in a boat. Pete falls out of the boat.

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Speaker 1: Who's left in the boat?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Madeline would have tackled you.

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Speaker 4: What do you say, ty shirt?

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Speaker 2: So you're agreeing with me, he's on a boat.

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Speaker 4: Sure, I'm on a boat.

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Speaker 1: Pete and repeater on a boat. Pete falls out of

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Speaker 1: the boat. Who's left in the boat?

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Speaker 2: Boats?

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Speaker 1: And no, Pete falls out of step on Diggs's boat.

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Speaker 1: Reb's okay, Dardi b Tyres Halliburton does it again, ty Shirt?

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Speaker 4: You are saying, I know well that and all of these.

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Speaker 2: Have been magic, you selfish bastard Twins. He's taking up

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Speaker 2: all the interwebs with that brilliance.

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Speaker 4: You just need that coming up next.

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Speaker 1: Why we made Aaron Rodgers to the Steelers happen on

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Speaker 1: the show last night.

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Speaker 4: I'm not kidding. That's next. Fog