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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome to what you need to know on Tasmelus.

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Speaker 1: There are plenty of juicy rumors to talk about before

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Speaker 1: Thursday's trade deadline, and know it's a little bit different

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Speaker 1: here off the top. No headlines for you, that says

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Speaker 1: producer JD from having to google Evan Fournier. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: writing that joke, JD. The Knicks Julius Randall dropped thirty

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Speaker 1: seven in a blowout win versus the Washington Wizards. It

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Speaker 1: has been a ridiculous season for Julius Randall. He had

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Speaker 1: seven threes in this game. His shooting development here in

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Speaker 1: year number seven has been phenomenal, old dog new tricks.

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Speaker 2: He's become a three point shooter.

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Speaker 1: He's become a star, and I assume he's become someone

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Speaker 1: other stars want to play with. To me, the biggest

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Speaker 1: thing to happen to the Blue and Orange this season

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Speaker 1: is that they are a free agent destination. Yes, the Knicks,

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Speaker 1: and maybe there'll be a destination at Thursday's trade deadline.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they'll be buyers. With so many teams in line

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Speaker 1: to make the postseason or the play in tournament, whatever

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Speaker 1: it's called, it's like the NCAA Tournament sixty four NBA

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Speaker 1: teams make the playoffs. I think the Knicks will get involved,

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Speaker 1: even though it's the seller's market. The Knicks will have

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Speaker 1: plenty of assets to sell. They've got plenty of young

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Speaker 1: players to offer up that they've collected since being a

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Speaker 1: bad team, like Kevin Knox or Frankni Lakina or rookie

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Speaker 1: Obi Toppin. If they want to go crazy, They've got

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Speaker 1: their own draft picks, and they have two Mavericks' first

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Speaker 1: round picks that Chris STAPs porzingis deal. It would have

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Speaker 1: to be someone that's part of their future, though, like

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Speaker 1: Lonzo Ball from New Orleans, because hitching their hopes to

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Speaker 1: someone like Victor Aldodipo would be a move of previous

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Speaker 1: Knicks administrations. Orlando's Evan Fournier is another option. And speaking

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Speaker 1: of those, Magic Denver took care of Orlando by double digits,

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Speaker 1: and the Magic's Aaron Gordon was very open about his

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Speaker 1: trade request on his Zoom impressor after the game. I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure if I should applaud him for his fourth

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Speaker 1: rightness or if I yearn for the days where players

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Speaker 1: would keep their demands a little bit more covert. Screw

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Speaker 1: it good for him, even if it hurts what the

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Speaker 1: Magic can get in return, because they have little leverage.

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Speaker 1: This seventh year player needs a new start, and he's

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Speaker 1: been telling his team management for a while that they

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Speaker 1: need to change their ways. As he candidly said on

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Speaker 1: Zoom that info doesn't really help their offseason attractiveness either.

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Speaker 1: But I heard the lines at Disney are very short

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Speaker 1: right now. Denver and Orlando are the two teams that

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Speaker 1: Magic guard Evan Fournier has played for in his career.

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Speaker 1: He was drafted by the Nuggets along with Gordon. Fournier

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Speaker 1: has been in trade rumors and he's an expiring deal,

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Speaker 1: so he's gonna be cheaper than Gordon. But on Twitter,

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Speaker 1: he's calling boll on anyone that said he demanded out

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Speaker 1: of Orlando player empowerment. Orlando Magic players don't play. If

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Speaker 1: Denver can acquire Evan Fournier to join their rotation of guards,

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Speaker 1: as it's rumor that Denver wants him, I would love

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Speaker 1: it for the Nuggets. Fournier has never been afraid to

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Speaker 1: shoot and is a real capable score Legit. He's averaging

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Speaker 1: a career high nineteen and a half points on very

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Speaker 1: solid percentages this season.

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Speaker 2: He's a vet.

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Speaker 1: He's not afraid. Fournier said I never want out on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: Never said that. I never said that, and the Hawks

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Speaker 1: power forward John Collins is saying the same thing. This

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Speaker 1: one's interesting. Everyone expected Collins to be leaving Atlanta before

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Speaker 1: Thursday's trade deadline, even though he turned down a big

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Speaker 1: extension from Atlanta in the preseason. He told the AJC's

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Speaker 1: Sarah K. Spencer support your local journalism, that he wants

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Speaker 1: to stay in Atlanta and doesn't want to be moved

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Speaker 1: by the deadline and doesn't necessarily want a max contract

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Speaker 1: when he becomes.

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Speaker 2: A free agent this offseason.

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Speaker 1: Hmmm. The idea of trading Collins has always been strange

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Speaker 1: because he's exactly what the Hawks need. They'd be looking

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Speaker 1: for another power forward if they trade power forward John Collins.

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Speaker 1: But maybe he's growing, Maybe he's adapting to his situation.

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Speaker 1: Maybe he understands he doesn't need to be a max player.

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Speaker 2: Maybe the team is growing.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I task Melis can grow and buy into the Hawks.

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Speaker 2: We can all grow. You see what John Collins is doing.

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Speaker 1: Do you see what Julius Randall is doing? Good stuff

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Speaker 1: from Atlanta. Let's see what happens in the next twenty

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Speaker 1: four I can't do the math Thursday's trade deadline. He's

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Speaker 1: approaching very quick. The Lakers continue their struggle without Lebron

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Speaker 1: or Anthony Davis in the lineup.

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Speaker 2: So is that going to change things for them?

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Speaker 1: Well, they got taken out pretty easily by Zion Williamson

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Speaker 1: and the Pelicans. I thought LA would get a Dennis

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Speaker 1: Shrewder game. Dennis is a confident man. Put him in the.

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Speaker 2: Number one role. The guy is a peacock.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I expected a twenty point game, but that did

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Speaker 1: not happen, And hopefully for the Lakers, they won't have

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Speaker 1: to find out for very much longer if Dennis Shruder

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Speaker 1: can be a peacock. Because Anthony Davis was working out

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Speaker 1: pregame and will be reevaluated on Friday, I do not

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Speaker 1: think they deplete their depth by going to get help

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Speaker 1: before Thursday's deadline. They still sit fourth in the Way

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Speaker 1: West and have games against the seventy six ers yikes,

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Speaker 1: then Cavs and Magic as their next three games. A

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Speaker 1: note on Zion after his twenty seven points first the Lakers,

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Speaker 1: Zion has recorded twenty one straight twenty point games, passing

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Speaker 1: Lukadancic and Lebron James for the most consecutive twenty point

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Speaker 1: games before turning twenty one in NBA history. Thanks to

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Speaker 1: ESPN Stats and Info for all that info, The point

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Speaker 1: is Zion is young and amazing. Phoenix Miami second year

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Speaker 1: lefty Kendrick Nunn had twenty five points in a loss,

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Speaker 1: including a thirteen point third quarter. None can have these

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Speaker 1: scorching hot nights. I know he was overlooked last year

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Speaker 1: because of Zion, Williamson and John Rant in the Rookie

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Speaker 1: of the Year race, but he was the favorite for

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Speaker 1: a time and he could be playing himself into a trade.

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Speaker 1: Rumors are that the Heat are in the running for

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Speaker 1: Houston's Victor Oledipo, but the return might be a lot

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Speaker 1: less than a good player like none, as Shampsherania of

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Speaker 1: The Athletic is reporting, Oladipo and his rental contract might

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Speaker 1: warrant just a second round pick. According to Scham's, I

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Speaker 1: personally wouldn't give up none and definitely not precious at

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Speaker 1: you if I were the Heat in this scenario. They've

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Speaker 1: got the Raptors Kyle Lowry to nab back to the floor.

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Speaker 1: If you're with me on YouTube, who has the better

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Speaker 1: South Beach ten Heat coach Eric Spolstra or Sons Devin Booker.

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Speaker 1: Spolster always gets a little sunny this time of year.

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Speaker 1: Maybe Devin Booker's just flush he is playing basketball, But

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Speaker 1: let me know. Brooklyn, Portland, James Harden and the Nets

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Speaker 1: visited Portland without Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant, and despite

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Speaker 1: not having those two, the Nets continue to grow into

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Speaker 1: what appears to be a championship level rotation. Hard And

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Speaker 1: tied his career of seventeen assists, dropping dimes to back

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Speaker 1: up big Youngster, Nick Claxton and James Harden working perfectly together.

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Speaker 1: Not sure if the Nets need to go get a

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Speaker 1: vet like JaVale McGee around out the roster when they

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Speaker 1: have Claxon and Blake Griffin, who played well in Game

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Speaker 1: number two off the bench for Blake, check the rotation.

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Speaker 2: It's ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: Durant, Kyrie hard and sharpshooter Joe Harris, Big DeAndre, Jordan

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Speaker 1: Bruce Brown, Landry Shaman, Blake Claxton, Timothay Lul Lucabarero, Jeff

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Speaker 1: Green who had twenty points, Andre Robertson and Emon Schumpert

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Speaker 1: are lurking ready to play. This team doesn't need anything else.

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Speaker 1: They do need KD to get back healthy, and he

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Speaker 1: is in the last stages of his rehab according to

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Speaker 1: Steve Nash, so he should be back soon. Philly visiting

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Speaker 1: Golden State, Steve Kerr held a powerful pregame press conference

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Speaker 1: where he honored the casualties of the two mass shootings

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Speaker 1: in Boulder and Atlanta over the last week. The names

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Speaker 1: of those who lost their lives were projected around him.

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Speaker 1: They're not just numbers, they are people. God, that is sad.

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Speaker 1: Then he talked about basketball. James Wiseman will start the

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Speaker 1: rest of the season for Golden State, going a little younger,

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Speaker 1: and he's obviously very capable at the center spot. And

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Speaker 1: then his team lost to the Philadelphia seventy six ers.

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Speaker 1: Tobias Harris continued his trend being the go to score

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Speaker 1: for Philly late, especially with Joel Embiid out and news

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Speaker 1: that Steph Curry will be out another week with inflammation

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Speaker 1: in his tailbone, out from that injury where he fell

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Speaker 1: on the sideline, just kind of fell on his bottom.

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Speaker 1: Inflammation in the tailbone. Hopefully Steph gets back soon. Why

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Speaker 1: am I saying inflammation in the tailbone so many times,

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Speaker 1: it's just fun to say.

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Speaker 2: All right, that's it for me.

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Speaker 1: Make sure you check out the full Nodunk's episode here

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday, as we approach the trade deadline, I'll be

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Speaker 1: back Thursday to give you the news as fast as

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Speaker 1: I possibly can.

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Speaker 2: I'll see that