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Speaker 1: Straight Fire, fam, It's me Jason McIntyre. This is straight

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Speaker 1: Fire for Tuesday, November nine. I hope you guys are

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Speaker 1: recovered from as wild of a Monday in sports as

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Speaker 1: not just talking about Monday night football. I'm talking about

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Speaker 1: the fight in the NBA. I'm talking about Steph Curry

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Speaker 1: talking about Damon our Nette of the Raiders. If you

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Speaker 1: He's not good losing his job in the NFL over

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Speaker 1: I don't know if we're coming out of COVID and

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Speaker 1: insanely foolish things. I'll just say this, I cannot wait

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Speaker 1: against the Morris Twin, one of the dirty Morris Twins

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Speaker 1: who um as as somebody said on uh social media,

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Speaker 1: if that's exactly what happened in Serbia, but goodness gracious,

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Speaker 1: I really don't. But there's no other way to open

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Speaker 1: get to in a second. With what the hell are

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Speaker 1: complete nonsense a the I don't know where the insistence

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Speaker 1: too straight there with the trash talk and the taunting

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Speaker 1: what could be a great product. I'll tell you right now.

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Speaker 1: The Chicago Bears nearly pulled that game out thanks to

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Speaker 1: don't want to take a shot at Jimmy Butler, but

425
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Speaker 1: when all of this happened and everybody's you know, breaking

426
00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:36,639
Speaker 1: it all up after this this this went down, Jimmy

427
00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:41,120
Speaker 1: Butler is standing within four ft of Nicola Yokich, not

428
00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:43,880
Speaker 1: saying anything to him. He's just standing there watching as

429
00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:46,119
Speaker 1: the guys are breaking things up. And it's not until

430
00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:48,359
Speaker 1: later that he gets real agitated. So it makes me

431
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:51,159
Speaker 1: think that he wasn't really mad at the act. He

432
00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:57,000
Speaker 1: was mad at somebody else. It's the tough guy from

433
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Speaker 1: the outside, yelling, yelling trash, hold me back, hold me

434
00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:06,840
Speaker 1: back guy. You know that, dude. Yeah, And so look, man,

435
00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:08,840
Speaker 1: I know Jimmy Butler's not one of those guys, but

436
00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:13,719
Speaker 1: as a whole as a league. As a profession, NBA

437
00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:18,320
Speaker 1: players are the biggest studio gangsters in all of sports.

438
00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:22,760
Speaker 1: That's harsh. It's not fair because you brought up two

439
00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:25,159
Speaker 1: guys who are like legitimately tough guys like I know

440
00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:26,879
Speaker 1: Jack a little bit too. You know, we've had him

441
00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:29,040
Speaker 1: on the radio show. I think I've met him once

442
00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:31,480
Speaker 1: and and yes he is a very tough guy. But

443
00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:34,480
Speaker 1: you can count. It's less. It's single digits, how many

444
00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:37,760
Speaker 1: legitimate tough guys there are in basketball. Yeah, I mean again,

445
00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:41,159
Speaker 1: these guys have been the biggest guy. If you are

446
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Speaker 1: six ten to fifty and you throw a punch at somebody,

447
00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:47,360
Speaker 1: I mean you're gonna influx a major damnit drop if

448
00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:53,120
Speaker 1: you're six seven. Not necessarily because most of these guys, okay,

449
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Speaker 1: for two reasons. Number one, of people who not hard

450
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Speaker 1: to throw a punch. You can think that you do

451
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:00,960
Speaker 1: because you know, you gotten a fight one time in

452
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:02,960
Speaker 1: sixth grade and you punched the kid and he found over.

453
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Speaker 1: So you think you know what the row punch, or

454
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Speaker 1: that you know you're not afraid of get into a

455
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Speaker 1: bar fight. But if you ask anybody who actually you

456
00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:12,640
Speaker 1: know studies boxing or martial arts or anything that they'll

457
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Speaker 1: tell you. Nobody knows how to the row punch, none

458
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:17,440
Speaker 1: of none of these regular guys. That's number one, number

459
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Speaker 1: two when you're six seven, two fifty pounds, like I

460
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Speaker 1: know that that sounds big, but these guys arms are

461
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Speaker 1: three and a half feet long, so they can't really

462
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Speaker 1: get a good you know, compact motion. Number one and

463
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Speaker 1: number two. They're so tall that they're actually thinner than

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Speaker 1: what you think that they are. Most of these guys

465
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Speaker 1: when you see him up closed, like we've had Matt

466
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Speaker 1: Barnes Jackson, we had Matt Barnes in studio several times

467
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Speaker 1: in Fox Sports Radio. He's six seven, I think he's

468
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:51,920
Speaker 1: like but he looks like he wears a medium shirt,

469
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Speaker 1: Like he's tall and skinny versus you know, we've had

470
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Speaker 1: uh tarall Owens, We've had you know, Greg Jennings, and

471
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:03,840
Speaker 1: these guys aren't even big guys like as receivers, but

472
00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:06,400
Speaker 1: you just see how much thicker they are, Like there's

473
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Speaker 1: a difference between five ten to twenty and six seven

474
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Speaker 1: to twenty. It's it's a huge difference. Yeah. Greg Jennings,

475
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:17,560
Speaker 1: by the way, um now is like a bodybuilding champion. Yeah, yeah,

476
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:21,280
Speaker 1: he is a legit tank um. But yeah, no. I

477
00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:24,679
Speaker 1: I've hosted radio shows with Matt Barnes and he is

478
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Speaker 1: the most soft spoken, nice guy. And then on the

479
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Speaker 1: court though, you know, he's one of those dudes who

480
00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:32,240
Speaker 1: you know, the switch flips and he's a different guy.

481
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:33,879
Speaker 1: And some people have that. I know a lot of

482
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Speaker 1: guys like that actually who play basketball. It's like, oh,

483
00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:40,000
Speaker 1: it's different you on the court. But I don't know.

484
00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:46,320
Speaker 1: I'm sure that a lot of these guys understand, like nobody,

485
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:48,560
Speaker 1: nobody ever wins a fight. You know, you're either gonna

486
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:51,000
Speaker 1: get in trouble, you're gonna get hurt. Uh. And if

487
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,119
Speaker 1: you're Jimmy Butler and you throw a punch, you're probably

488
00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:55,240
Speaker 1: gonna get sued big time. That's why I said go

489
00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:58,879
Speaker 1: to the back, because he's not gonna throw in the

490
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Speaker 1: era of camera phones, don't know, don't you miss that?

491
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:03,439
Speaker 1: I know that we're going off topic, or don't you

492
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:05,440
Speaker 1: miss remember I think this was a preseason game where

493
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:08,159
Speaker 1: Rick Fox and Doug Christie got into it and they

494
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 1: both pointed at the back, like let's go meet in

495
00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:12,680
Speaker 1: the back then, and they actually met in the back

496
00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:14,960
Speaker 1: like in the tunnel, and they were actually going at it.

497
00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 1: That was pretty boy, Rick Fox. Also, the legendary Morris

498
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:22,720
Speaker 1: uh twins story is when they were at Kansas, I

499
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:27,000
Speaker 1: guess there was a girl. UM football player was making

500
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:28,680
Speaker 1: a move on her and she was dating one of

501
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 1: the Morris twins, And basically the Morris Twins decided to

502
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 1: try to fight the entire Kansas Jayhawks football team and

503
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:36,320
Speaker 1: like it was happening, like it was a fight that

504
00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:39,159
Speaker 1: really happened, and they were just not afraid and they

505
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:41,679
Speaker 1: were taking on multiple guys. Um. I don't know if

506
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:44,440
Speaker 1: Morris Twins been asked about that. Maybe can you try

507
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:46,040
Speaker 1: to get one of them on the No, I'm just kidding.

508
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:48,360
Speaker 1: I think I've called him a goon on this pod

509
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:52,680
Speaker 1: too many times. Uh, let's not do that. Um, But yeah,

510
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 1: I don't know NBA's Uh it's still early. Should we

511
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:57,639
Speaker 1: quickly wrap up with Ben Simmons or save it for

512
00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:00,200
Speaker 1: later in the week. What do you think? Uh, it's

513
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:02,360
Speaker 1: not trades is not gonna happen, So wherever you want

514
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 1: to do, it's up to you. Fox Sports Radio has

515
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:07,960
Speaker 1: the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all

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Speaker 1: of our shows at Fox sports radio dot com and

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518
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:18,000
Speaker 1: to listen live. You know, I like Adrian Wojanowski Win

519
00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:20,359
Speaker 1: horsed all these guys. I don't know sham, so I

520
00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:24,600
Speaker 1: can't say anything. The way the media is handling this

521
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:29,400
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons thing is despicable. It's basically like a mental

522
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:33,639
Speaker 1: health issue and they're just making a mockery of it.

523
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, Ben Simmons is meeting with n b

524
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Speaker 1: A mental health people. He won't meet with Sixers mental

525
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:42,320
Speaker 1: health people. Well, we're gonna find him if he's not

526
00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:45,080
Speaker 1: going to And like, why are we running to the

527
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 1: media to tell them exactly what the hell is going

528
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 1: on in the NFL? We don't do that. Why are

529
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 1: we doing it with Ben Simmons and the Sixers? Is

530
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:57,280
Speaker 1: the NBA desperate to get this out to like just

531
00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:00,720
Speaker 1: keep the league? I don't know. In the ether, it

532
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:05,560
Speaker 1: almost feels gross. It's like, wait, really, we're gonna just

533
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 1: anything that happens that opposite take of of the people

534
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 1: in the media what you just said, because everybody's against

535
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons in the situation, because it feels like, at

536
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:18,840
Speaker 1: least to me, that he's weaponizing mental health. I've I've

537
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:21,480
Speaker 1: definitely heard that take and the way he came about it,

538
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 1: where I demand to be traded. I'm not showing up.

539
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 1: Oh you're gonna find me. Okay, Fine, it's a mental

540
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 1: health thing, like, yeah, his tact is bad, but do

541
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 1: you really doubt that there isn't some kind of mental

542
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 1: hurdle here. I think he has like the yips, the

543
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:39,200
Speaker 1: equivalent of that, something like that. Isn't that mental though? Yeah?

544
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:43,200
Speaker 1: But you know it's mental health just like physical health.

545
00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:46,080
Speaker 1: It's hard for people to take you seriously, say hey,

546
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:49,640
Speaker 1: this hurts, and you're not letting a professional check you out.

547
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,560
Speaker 1: I don't know. Lane Johnson just missed like two or

548
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 1: three games with the Eagles. Mental health thing. Nobody we

549
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 1: said ship and well, I mean he's Lane no offense,

550
00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:00,000
Speaker 1: Lane Johnson, but he's not an all star? Okay, Calvin

551
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 1: rhythmic places like taking time off of the Falcons, like

552
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 1: I don't know if sitting out the rest of the

553
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 1: season or whatever. Yeah, but I'm sure that there's not

554
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 1: I don't hear any reporting about any of it. Willing

555
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 1: to bet that he communicated with his team who he's

556
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,800
Speaker 1: meeting with. Okay, so why is that team not leaking

557
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 1: anything about what's going on with Really the media is

558
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:21,240
Speaker 1: not poking around, but Calvin Calvin Ridley is not demanding

559
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 1: a trade at the same time, so there's not already

560
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:25,480
Speaker 1: a frostiness between him and the atlant of Falcon where

561
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:27,840
Speaker 1: they have no reason to not believe what he's doing. Okay,

562
00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 1: so it took that even leads me to more hatred

563
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,160
Speaker 1: towards the Sixers and what they're doing. You want to

564
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:34,560
Speaker 1: trade the guy? Want you shut the hell up and

565
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 1: stop leaking everything? How is helping? How is leaking every

566
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 1: single morsel of what Ben Simmons is going through helping

567
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:47,640
Speaker 1: his trade value? How? How what is that doing? Just

568
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:50,400
Speaker 1: be quiet, just stop, just don't tell them what's going on.

569
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:54,680
Speaker 1: It's so funny Von Miller gets traded in the NFL.

570
00:30:54,960 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 1: Not a whiff of it anywhere leading up. Nothing we

571
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 1: hear about like daily Ben Simmons meetings with mental health

572
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 1: people and the Sixers and the NBA, like come on disgusting,

573
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 1: Rob on principle, I agree with you in this situation.

574
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 1: I don't I think that what Ben Simmons is doing

575
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 1: is despicable. A lot of people feel that way, but

576
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:23,240
Speaker 1: they already hated Ben Simmons. Well, I like Ben Simmons.

577
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 1: I think that he gets a bad rapper wrong in Philly.

578
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 1: I think that that he's become the fall guy for

579
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 1: a lot of other issues with that team. But you know,

580
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:33,760
Speaker 1: mental health is real, you know. I know people have

581
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 1: tend mental health issues. I've had some, you know, relatively

582
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 1: minor when in the grand scheme, but Thins mental health issues,

583
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:42,840
Speaker 1: and so it's legitimate and for you too, or for

584
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 1: him to, you know, use it as the Kyrie irving wall.

585
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:48,400
Speaker 1: If you guys don't do what I want, I'm gonna

586
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 1: get surgery. And he's like, oh, if you guys don't

587
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 1: trade me, I'm you know, you can't really check me

588
00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 1: if I'm not gonna let your doctors check me. So

589
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 1: you just have to believe that I'm going through something

590
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 1: and I'm not going to report to the team. Hey,

591
00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 1: by the way, how about the Nets. Let's give them

592
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 1: a round of A plus. I'm gonna basket six. I

593
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 1: haven't heard anything. I don't know what's going on with Kyrie.

594
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 1: I don't know what the Sage burning situation is. All

595
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 1: I know is the last thing out of Kyrie. The

596
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:11,160
Speaker 1: Nets aren't leaking anything was. He posted a picture of

597
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:16,760
Speaker 1: shoot which which actor was it from the matrix? Keanu Reeves, No,

598
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 1: it was the other fishburn fishburn Yeah, he posted a

599
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 1: picture of fishburn Uh. And then of course everybody went

600
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,720
Speaker 1: to google the matrix and what Fishburne's character was and

601
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. You know, I'm fine with bread crumbs

602
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 1: like that. Ben Simmons don't play like that. He doesn't

603
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 1: do anything on social media. It's all for show. Um,

604
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 1: I don't know. I listen. NBA is kind of super

605
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 1: interesting right now, but the NFL is just bananas, so

606
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 1: it doesn't hold a candle to it. Um, So I

607
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:44,960
Speaker 1: let's let's put a pin in it there and we'll

608
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:46,640
Speaker 1: get back. I don't think we're done with this because

609
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 1: the Ben Simmons is not going away. And by the way,

610
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 1: the Nets really miss Kyrie Irving. Sluggish seven and fourth start,

611
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 1: they don't really have much scoring outside of Katie. James

612
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:58,880
Speaker 1: Harden is still not you know, it's like early season

613
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 1: plump James Hard. Um, It's I'm not time to panic

614
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 1: yet if you're the Nets. But like they got blasted

615
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 1: by Chicago apparently the only team that could beat the

616
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:11,080
Speaker 1: Bulls is Um, the Sixers, and Joel Embid who is

617
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 1: now in COVID protocol. But yeah, now we're going too

618
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 1: deep into the NBA. All right, rop Uh, let's wrap

619
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Speaker 1: it there. Thanks for listening. We'll talk to you guys

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Speaker 1: tomorrow