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Speaker 1: Welcome to This League Uncut rule of.

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Speaker 2: Twenty four hour NBA News. This's hell, Chris Haynes, it's

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Speaker 2: no time, Mark Stein.

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Speaker 3: It's so time.

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Speaker 2: This league and cut is underway inod on fire. This

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Speaker 2: should be a good one. Here we go.

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Speaker 4: Everyone, Welcome in at last to the first of this

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Speaker 4: week's episodes of This League Uncut. Mark Stein, still in

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Speaker 4: La Chris Haynes en route to Miami. We've had some

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Speaker 4: travel challenges this week with both of us on the

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Speaker 4: road covering different first round matchups. We've had some technical

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Speaker 4: snaffoos that we had.

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Speaker 2: To work through.

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Speaker 4: We actually started recording the other day and had to

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Speaker 4: abandon it because my hotel room was just not cooperating.

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Speaker 2: But we've worked through it all. We are finally together again.

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Speaker 4: And it's perfect timing now because last night Chris Haynes

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Speaker 4: was in Boston to see the Mighty Celtics, who everyone

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Speaker 4: thought were gonna absolutely roll through the short headed Miami

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Speaker 4: Heat but oh no, heat culture goes wild from three

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Speaker 4: twenty three threes from the Heat and Chris Haynes was there.

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Speaker 2: What did it look like? What was it like to

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Speaker 2: be in Boston last night?

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Speaker 1: Boston's always won, I will say top three most rowdy

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Speaker 1: crowds environments in the league, especially in the playoffs. But

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Speaker 1: I love Boston Celtics fans. But I will say, you know,

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Speaker 1: you can't tell an awful lot about a team's demeanor,

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Speaker 1: a team before the game. But I saw the Miami

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Speaker 1: Heat walk into the arena. They were laser focused, like

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Speaker 1: there was just a seriousness about them that it just caught.

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Speaker 3: My attention right away. And again I'm not I'm still not.

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Speaker 1: Thinking like, damn, okay, they gonna they gonna come up

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Speaker 3: But it just caught my attention.

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Speaker 1: Coach Spode, everybody, everybody, pat Riley, everybody's walking.

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Speaker 3: They're laser focused.

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Speaker 1: And they came out and put together a game plan

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Speaker 1: and a performance that many didn't expect. I did predict

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Speaker 1: that they would win yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Didn't war. Where was that? Where was that prediction registered?

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Speaker 3: I didn't predict the publicly? Is that okay? Start? Do

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Speaker 3: I have Do I have to predictable thing? Publicly?

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Speaker 1: I did, hold on, I will bring listen, I would

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Speaker 1: bring Actually I did, I did publicly. I did do

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Speaker 1: it public but it wasn't on any airways or on

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Speaker 1: any podcasts. But Stan Van Gundy can vouch because before

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Speaker 1: the game, Stan said he had Boston blowing him out,

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Speaker 1: and I said, no, I think Miami is going to

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Speaker 4: I'm going to ask him because listen, you you don't

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Speaker 4: have to publicly make your predictions, but if you're going

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Speaker 4: to take a victory lap, you have to have made it.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't knows about it, so that that should officially count.

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Speaker 1: They had the Garden quiet, and I'm not talking about

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Speaker 1: Miami was just making plays down the stretch. Tyler Hero

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Speaker 1: was phenomenal. Bam out of Bio. He was hitting that

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Speaker 1: a game plan to perfection. So now off to Miami,

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Speaker 1: where where things really get interested start Miami for games

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Speaker 4: Well, look, I'm not gonna take too much of a

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Speaker 2: I can send you the link if you need proof.

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Speaker 4: I did say this series with those six games, and

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Speaker 4: I think people thought I was a little crazy. But

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Speaker 4: such is my respect for the Miami Heat. And you

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Speaker 4: know what it isn't It isn't even just about these

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Speaker 4: last few years, with three trips to the finals in

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Speaker 4: a very short span. And last season, of course, we

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Speaker 4: all remember Miami as an eight seed, looking so bad

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Speaker 4: in the play in they lost to Atlanta, they barely

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Speaker 4: starting with the first round upset of Milwaukee. It's not

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Speaker 4: even just because that is so fresh in the memory.

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Speaker 4: I have lived in fear of the Miami Heat since

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Speaker 4: two thousand and six, when I watched them go down

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Speaker 2: I was critical of that team all season.

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Speaker 4: Dan Lebattard used to bring me on his radio show

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Speaker 4: the six finals, they come back beat Dallas four in

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Speaker 4: and ever since then, since two thousand and six, I said,

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Speaker 4: I am never writing off the Miami Heat again. So

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Speaker 4: almost twenty years later, my respect for this franchise is

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Speaker 4: still so strong that I said, even without Jimmy Butler,

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Speaker 4: they're going to win at least two games in this series,

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Speaker 4: and I'm sure they will be insulted even by that.

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Speaker 4: Knowing the Heat, they probably think that they can this

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Speaker 1: It's funny that you say that, Stein, because I spoke

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Speaker 1: y'all think that y'all could come in here in TV

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Speaker 3: He said.

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Speaker 1: My whole tenure with the Miami Heat, we've been doubted

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Speaker 1: We've never been the favorites. So what he said, this

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Speaker 1: get to use that. He said, they're comfortable in this position.

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Speaker 1: I have to think about that. They're comfortable in this position.

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Speaker 2: You buying that though you really think they are?

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Speaker 3: Yes, I mean, look with the results shoot multiple.

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Speaker 1: NBA Finals appearances over the last three four years, like

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Speaker 1: they're accustomed to this. Whether it's the coaching staff or

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Speaker 1: And I'm not going I'm not going as far as

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Speaker 4: Well, because the skeptic would say, okay, they made twenty

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Speaker 4: three threes three point variants. There's no way they're going

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Speaker 4: in this series. Yeah, and again, I'm sure just me

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Speaker 4: even saying that would insult Spoe and various members of

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Speaker 4: are I mean, you might not like hearing about Heat culture,

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Speaker 4: you might not like seeing it on their court, but

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Speaker 4: they are stubborn and like you say, they believe it.

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Speaker 1: Stian, let me tell you this after the game me,

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Speaker 3: And this is why we got to bring him on.

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Speaker 1: He made a very astute point and something that I

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Speaker 1: He's a He's an excellent post up player for a guard.

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Speaker 1: But by them making that switch. Boston started feeding Jayden

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Speaker 3: Let's go over there.

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Speaker 1: Let's go over there, completely taking Boston out of what

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Speaker 1: And so just like one little tactic like that where people, uh,

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Speaker 1: Oh and I'll say this before we transitioned out before

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Speaker 1: Hearing those two talk and When I say talk, I

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Speaker 2: The world according to the Van Gundies.

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Speaker 4: And Jeff of course now working as a consultant to

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Speaker 4: And yeah, that would I'm guessing that would be a

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Speaker 2: You're on this series.

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Speaker 4: You got both the games in Miami, you just did

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Speaker 3: Yes, it's a little usual.

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Speaker 4: Isn't it for you to have an extended run on

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Speaker 1: But TNT has TNT has those games. So I think

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Speaker 1: We have these we have four. They actually have two, three,

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Speaker 1: It just happens that TNT has three through five, two

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Speaker 1: I would love to be in Miami. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if they listened to this podcast, but there was no

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Speaker 4: No, I have to think for you to be able

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Speaker 4: But I mean, man, I think the Celtics have been

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Speaker 1: Stein about two weeks. Should I even say this? Let Mestak,

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Speaker 2: I did not get the hey, here's my number, lock

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Speaker 3: Hold on, what what ESPN commercial? What you're talking about?

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Speaker 4: You haven't seen that ESPN commercial When Jason Tatum is

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Speaker 2: You haven't seen that one?

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Speaker 2: Or maybe you just don't watch ESPN anymore.

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Speaker 3: That's that's true, too cold blooded? That's true. Who watch games?

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Speaker 4: I suspect to be talking more about Celtic's heat than

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Speaker 2: And you said you might even end up on five. Yes,

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Speaker 2: Five and you're with Stan the whole time.

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Speaker 1: Stan and Bia with them the whole way through up

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Speaker 1: the Western Conference Finals. Stan will join Reggie and Kevin

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Speaker 2: We need to get Stan on the podcast.

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Speaker 3: It's don Dale, just lea, let me win, yes, Dundale.

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Speaker 1: looks like a series that can very well end up

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00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:51,240
Speaker 1: in a suite. Don't know going back to New Orleans now,

440
00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:53,640
Speaker 1: but they're playing some really good ball. I'm very impressed.

441
00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:55,359
Speaker 2: Well, let's be honest.

442
00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:58,040
Speaker 4: I mean, I think the thunder were rattled in the

443
00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:00,879
Speaker 4: first game of that series. They were not convincing and

444
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,920
Speaker 4: crunch time and found a way to escape with a win.

445
00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:07,800
Speaker 4: But we saw turnovers from Shay gild just Alexander that

446
00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:13,320
Speaker 4: are uncharacteristic. I mean, they did not look super comfortable

447
00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:15,280
Speaker 4: in their first.

448
00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:17,800
Speaker 2: Taste of playoff basketball for this group.

449
00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:21,080
Speaker 4: But then Game two, they couldn't have been more impressive

450
00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:23,399
Speaker 4: last night, just blowing New Orleans.

451
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:25,359
Speaker 3: Off the floor. And that's why I said stuff.

452
00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:28,159
Speaker 1: I didn't expect them to come back like that after

453
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:30,719
Speaker 1: that game won. You know, CJ McCullum hiss the three

454
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:32,720
Speaker 1: at the end of game one. It's a different story.

455
00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:35,960
Speaker 1: So I expected, you know, Okay, maybe that was a

456
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,440
Speaker 1: gut punch they took. Let's see how they bounced backward

457
00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:40,960
Speaker 1: or if they even do bounce back. In the game two,

458
00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:42,880
Speaker 1: they definitely did bounce back.

459
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 4: And I'm going to keep it in the Northwest Division

460
00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:49,640
Speaker 4: with my nomination because I'm going with Minnesota, and it's

461
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:51,320
Speaker 4: for a lot of the same reasons. I mean the

462
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:55,160
Speaker 4: Wolves fifth. It only got them the number third seed.

463
00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:58,760
Speaker 4: They're in a matchup as the Phoenix team that swept

464
00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:02,000
Speaker 4: them three to zero during the regular season, tough matchup.

465
00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:06,600
Speaker 4: The Wolves are under massive pressure because, as we've talked

466
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,919
Speaker 4: about on this show a bazillion times, in the first

467
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:14,200
Speaker 4: thirty odd years of Wolve's history, this team had only

468
00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:19,240
Speaker 4: won a playoff series twice before, both in the spring

469
00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:22,959
Speaker 4: of two thousand and four, so twenty years without beating

470
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:28,119
Speaker 4: anybody in the playoffs. They're facing a hot Phoenix team

471
00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:35,240
Speaker 4: all this expectation, and they have been sensational. They've won

472
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:38,680
Speaker 4: the first two games by nearly forty points combined. They've

473
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:43,560
Speaker 4: held Phoenix under one hundred points both times. Aunt Edwards

474
00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:48,520
Speaker 4: was mortal offensively in Game two and it still didn't matter.

475
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 4: And again, you don't want to overreact too much to

476
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:56,480
Speaker 4: a two to zero lead, but again history says, history

477
00:26:56,600 --> 00:27:00,280
Speaker 4: tells you that if you take a two zero lead

478
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 4: in the best of seven, nearly ninety three percent of

479
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:08,720
Speaker 4: the time you're advancing. So it's difficult not to be

480
00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:12,400
Speaker 4: absolutely wowed by what we're seeing from the Wolves, who

481
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:17,880
Speaker 4: have shown us again that they are the best defensive

482
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:19,399
Speaker 4: team in the league.

483
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:22,680
Speaker 1: That was definitely a choice I could have made as well,

484
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:25,280
Speaker 1: but I had a feeling you a pick Minnesota.

485
00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:27,640
Speaker 4: So I'm glad you made the choice you made because

486
00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:29,880
Speaker 4: I was not expecting you to pick Oklahoma Sea.

487
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:30,720
Speaker 2: That's so, that's good.

488
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:32,359
Speaker 4: We do want to we don't want to have just

489
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 4: the same answers, but this will be you know, this

490
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 4: will be interesting to see if we can come up

491
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:39,320
Speaker 4: with a difference here, because I'm not sure.

492
00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:39,720
Speaker 2: That we can.

493
00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:45,399
Speaker 4: What team or player has most disappointed you through the

494
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:47,000
Speaker 4: first four or five days?

495
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:56,359
Speaker 1: The Phoenix Suns disappointment disappointment and yes, yeah, yeah, I

496
00:27:56,359 --> 00:28:00,199
Speaker 1: mean I don't this is a team that's built or

497
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:03,119
Speaker 1: should I say, has aspiration.

498
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:04,359
Speaker 3: I'm not aspiration.

499
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:08,439
Speaker 1: They're supposed to be a championship contending team, period. And

500
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,679
Speaker 1: we can talk about, you know, how the team is structured.

501
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:14,600
Speaker 1: You know, you can we can have complaints or have

502
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 1: gripes or how they were modeled. But point blank, you

503
00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:21,000
Speaker 1: got Bradley Beal, you got Kevin Durant, you got Devin Booker.

504
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:23,639
Speaker 1: That is a team that is expected to win a

505
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:28,200
Speaker 1: championship and contend for a championship. They're not playing anywhere

506
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:32,439
Speaker 1: close to that type of a level. And it's a disappointment.

507
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:36,359
Speaker 1: Disappointment on all fronts period. Everybody has to take blame

508
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 1: in this, from players to coaches, to management to ownership.

509
00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:43,600
Speaker 1: Everybody has to take blame in what's going on. Have

510
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 1: to take a part in the shortcomings. Again, don't want

511
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:51,600
Speaker 1: to overreact. You did point out to the stats with

512
00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:54,320
Speaker 1: the teams that do jump out the two O leads,

513
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 1: oftentimes they're going to move on to the next round.

514
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:03,000
Speaker 1: But shot, the series goes back to Phoenix now. But

515
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:06,560
Speaker 1: this is a disappointment for sure. This team should not

516
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:11,200
Speaker 1: be and is not expected to be underperforming at this level.

517
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:15,400
Speaker 2: Look, their season was all over the place.

518
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 4: You know, I was constantly tracking how many games we

519
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:25,120
Speaker 4: would actually see Devin Booker, Kevin Durant, and Bradley Beal

520
00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:28,520
Speaker 4: played together. It got so bad that I think at

521
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:31,560
Speaker 4: some point on our show, I said the over under

522
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:33,960
Speaker 4: will end up being thirty. Okay, they ended up playing

523
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 4: forty one games, so they went way past my over under.

524
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 4: My over under was too low. But they only played

525
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:43,680
Speaker 4: together in forty one games. The Sons were twenty six

526
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 4: and fifteen in those games. But remember the Suns lost

527
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:52,200
Speaker 4: in San Antonio in late March, which just seemed like

528
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 4: an unforgivable loss.

529
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 2: They didn't even the Spurs didn't even have.

530
00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:00,760
Speaker 4: Victor Weman Yama that night if I'm remembering correctly. And

531
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 4: then the last ten games on the Suns schedule, we're

532
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 4: all against teams with winning records. After that terrible loss

533
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:11,800
Speaker 4: in San Antonio, the Suns finished seven to three.

534
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:13,680
Speaker 2: More importantly, it was.

535
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:17,760
Speaker 4: The best Beal has looked all season, and the Suns

536
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:22,720
Speaker 4: came into the playoffs with real momentum. And I think

537
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:27,600
Speaker 4: we're a pretty popular pick to upset Minnesota in first

538
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 4: round because of the inexperience that you mentioned. And now

539
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 4: look where the Suns are down two to zero. They

540
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 4: haven't been competitive really in either game. Grayson Allen is

541
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:42,080
Speaker 4: banged up now, and he's been such a huge.

542
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:44,640
Speaker 2: Part of that team's success.

543
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:47,840
Speaker 4: This is a team that doesn't have depth, It doesn't

544
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 4: have a great amount of size and so an injury

545
00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:53,800
Speaker 4: to Grayson Allen, if he's compromised in any way for

546
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:56,800
Speaker 4: the rest of this series, that's a huge problem. And

547
00:30:56,840 --> 00:31:01,680
Speaker 4: they are going to be huge, huge, huge question marks

548
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 4: about what this team does in the offseason because they

549
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:11,880
Speaker 4: they're in the second apron and it's not easy to

550
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 4: make changes. It's not easy for them to do anything

551
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 4: to really change this roster.

552
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 2: And so man, they have gone all in on a

553
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:24,400
Speaker 2: team that.

554
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 4: You know, they were to to two with Denver in

555
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 4: the playoffs last year in the second round. Are they

556
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:31,120
Speaker 4: going to see the second round this year?

557
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 3: How?

558
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 4: How are they going to dig out of a two

559
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 4: to zero hole against the best defense in the league.

560
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 4: Can they win four out of five from here against

561
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:42,720
Speaker 4: the Wolves?

562
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 2: I don't see it. I don't see it.

563
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 4: And the Suns were clearly mine, but since since you

564
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 4: have nominated them, and I don't want to just repeat

565
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:57,280
Speaker 4: what you've said, and I think I've pretty much made

566
00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:02,640
Speaker 4: my son's stance pretty clear here. Just I'm still just bummed.

567
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:07,120
Speaker 4: There's just so many injuries. Giannis Antitokumpo. Are we gonna

568
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 4: see him in this first round series against Indiana? Knowing

569
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 4: Yannis I'm sure he's gonna do everything he can to

570
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 4: try to find a way. A calf strain is such

571
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 4: a tricky injury. It's such a potentially dangerous injury in

572
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:29,480
Speaker 4: terms of reaggravation and what it could lead to. Rushing

573
00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 4: back just does not seem like a wise idea. So

574
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 4: I think it remains fair to question are we gonna

575
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 4: see janus Antitokunpo in this round? We know we're not

576
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 4: gonna see Zion Williamson in this series. We know we

577
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:45,840
Speaker 4: are most likely not gonna see Jimmy Butler in this series.

578
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 2: Joel Embiid is playing, but is clearly compromised.

579
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 4: I was there in La for Kawhi Leonard's comeback game,

580
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 4: and I really thought the Clippers were going to wait

581
00:32:56,960 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 4: until Friday's Game three to give Kawhi some extra time

582
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 4: because Game one and Game two were in such a

583
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 4: short span.

584
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:08,040
Speaker 2: But Kawhi is back, has the rust.

585
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:10,480
Speaker 4: Work through, and like I said, this is just it's

586
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 4: just a disappointment for so many big names to either

587
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 4: be out or less than full strength. And you could

588
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 4: throw Karl Anthony Towns into this discussion as well, because

589
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 4: Towns missed only a month after a meniscus injury and

590
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 4: his back very very quickly.

591
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:29,840
Speaker 2: So it just.

592
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:36,720
Speaker 4: It's always a downer to see so many injury situations

593
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:38,120
Speaker 4: impacting the playoffs.

594
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Bee's not looking good.

595
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 1: I covered that game two Nicks Sixers.

596
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:47,160
Speaker 3: Hey, let's get into that, stime.

597
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:50,280
Speaker 1: I know you have some news on what happened in

598
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 1: the aftermath, but you know I was, I was working

599
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:56,280
Speaker 1: that game, and Beid is just not right.

600
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:56,479
Speaker 3: Man.

601
00:33:56,520 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 1: He's hobbling, he's pulling up. I feel bad for him.

602
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:02,680
Speaker 1: I really feel bad for him. The seat that I

603
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 1: had in Madison Square Garden is a seat that's right

604
00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 1: behind the Sixers bench, and when at one point when

605
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:13,319
Speaker 1: in Bed got pulled out and he sat at his

606
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 1: seat at the end of the bench, you know, probably

607
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:20,319
Speaker 1: about eight feet away from me. The physical therapist is misogynist,

608
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 1: knee stretching it out, and at one point and b

609
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:28,359
Speaker 1: put a towel over his head. I don't know if

610
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:31,200
Speaker 1: he did that to cover up a painful expression he

611
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:32,279
Speaker 1: might be making, or.

612
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:36,120
Speaker 3: He was just tired, but it's not a good look.

613
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:39,759
Speaker 1: Man. He You can tell he's just trying to be

614
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:42,400
Speaker 1: out there for his team and give him everything that

615
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 1: he has.

616
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 3: But he is.

617
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:48,719
Speaker 1: Nowhere near himself, and I'm hoping that he doesn't get

618
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:54,479
Speaker 1: out there and further damage, damages anything, because he's trying

619
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:55,400
Speaker 1: to fight it out.

620
00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 3: But Stan, you.

621
00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:59,840
Speaker 1: Had some news on on what the Sixers, the beef

622
00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:03,400
Speaker 1: that the Sixers had with how the ending came about,

623
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:05,319
Speaker 1: and what happened in the ending of Game two, So

624
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:06,400
Speaker 1: I'll let you have the floor.

625
00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:10,719
Speaker 4: Yeah, I did a story today earlier on Thursday that

626
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:14,000
Speaker 4: you know, when look, the Sixers were on the wrong

627
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:19,839
Speaker 4: end of more than one bad call in their Game

628
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:24,040
Speaker 4: two loss and late collapse in New York against the Knicks.

629
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:28,839
Speaker 4: I mean, multiple mistakes were cited in the last two

630
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 4: minute report.

631
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:31,719
Speaker 2: But there was a lot of reporting after.

632
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:34,680
Speaker 4: That game that a grievance was going to be filed

633
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:39,600
Speaker 4: by the Sixers in this situation, And my story today

634
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:44,920
Speaker 4: basically explains there is no such thing as a general

635
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:49,400
Speaker 4: grievance about officiating. A team can call the league office

636
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 4: and register complaints that way, and I'm told that the

637
00:35:54,560 --> 00:36:00,719
Speaker 4: Sixers certainly did that, but the word grievance was widely reported,

638
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:05,280
Speaker 4: and that suggests that you can officially file some grievance document.

639
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 4: There's no such thing as a general grievance that can

640
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:13,240
Speaker 4: be filed over officiating. Teams have the right to file

641
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 4: a formal protest, and the Sixers, to be fair, never

642
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 4: said they were going to file a protest over Game two,

643
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 4: But that was the only official measure that the Sixers could.

644
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 2: Have taken, and they did not do that.

645
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:30,840
Speaker 4: And again they never said they were going to file

646
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 4: a Game two protest. But in terms of filing a grievance,

647
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:39,719
Speaker 4: I just wrote this story to stress and explain that

648
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:43,600
Speaker 4: there is no such thing. Teams call the league office

649
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:47,040
Speaker 4: all the time, they send video clips into the league

650
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:52,279
Speaker 4: office all the time, but there's no grievance language in

651
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:57,080
Speaker 4: the league's bylaws and constitution that allows a team to

652
00:36:57,160 --> 00:37:04,319
Speaker 4: file a Quotevens. And the reason you see so few protests, look,

653
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 4: there have only been six successful protests in league history,

654
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:12,759
Speaker 4: and this season the Knicks actually filed one after a

655
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:17,719
Speaker 4: loss in Houston, and that protest was denied because what

656
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:22,680
Speaker 4: the league always says in the protest situation is they're

657
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:27,360
Speaker 4: not going to overturn human error mistakes. The last protest

658
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:31,640
Speaker 4: to succeed in the NBA was way back in two

659
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 4: thousand and seven, two thousand and eight.

660
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:37,800
Speaker 2: When your TNT teammate Shaquille O'Neill.

661
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:42,759
Speaker 4: Playing for the Heat at the time, was fouled out

662
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 4: of a game against Atlanta. Scorers Table said he has

663
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:48,800
Speaker 4: six fouls. He actually only had five fouls. So that

664
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 4: was a real misapplication of the rules. And that's why

665
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 4: the last forty odd seconds of that game had to

666
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 4: be replayed because that that wasn't a judgment call, that

667
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:07,280
Speaker 4: was a scorebook airr and that's why that protest was upheld.

668
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 4: But I'm sure you remember in January Portland, Chauncey Billups

669
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:17,279
Speaker 4: went ballistic, calling time out, time out, not granted, he

670
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 4: ends up getting two texts. The Blazers lose a close game.

671
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:23,400
Speaker 4: The Blazers actually came out and said we're going to

672
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:26,879
Speaker 4: protest this game, and then there's a forty eight hour

673
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 4: window to file a protest. The Blazers decided against it

674
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 4: in that instance because I think they know you never

675
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 4: win these protests. The Knicks did go ahead and register

676
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:41,560
Speaker 4: a protest from that February game in Houston, but the

677
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:44,480
Speaker 4: protest was not successful. And again, I just wanted to

678
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:47,040
Speaker 4: do this story today to clarify there was all this

679
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 4: talk that a grievance would be forthcoming, and there's no

680
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:56,239
Speaker 4: such thing as a written grievance in the NBA by law,

681
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:57,400
Speaker 4: So that was really the story.

682
00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 1: Well good, so now people can move on and get

683
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:06,360
Speaker 1: ready for Game three because they spent so much time

684
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:10,680
Speaker 1: and I understood the Sixers point of view, but they

685
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 1: spent a lot of time faulting the officials, which they

686
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 1: had a right to, but they made costly mistakes. I'm

687
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:21,920
Speaker 1: telling you throughout that. You know, let's talk about Kyle Lowry.

688
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 1: And they said Nick Nurse, they they acknowledging that two

689
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 1: Many report that Nick Nurse is trying to get a

690
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:28,080
Speaker 1: call the time out.

691
00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 3: But you know, Kyle Lowry is right there. He's a veteran.

692
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 1: You know he should He's supposed to have a five

693
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:36,359
Speaker 1: second clock in his head. On Okay, if I can't

694
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:38,759
Speaker 1: get a clean pass in, well I got to call

695
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:39,319
Speaker 1: it time out.

696
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:41,840
Speaker 3: He did it, and so he put you put the

697
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 3: team at risk.

698
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 1: And then just even that play, okay, even with you

699
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:49,399
Speaker 1: still want to talk about that play. The Sixers had

700
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 1: multiple guys crashing offensive rebound, diving on.

701
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 3: The floor for loose balls.

702
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:58,239
Speaker 1: But they've been doing that in those two games thus far.

703
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:01,400
Speaker 1: The Sixers are more to on it. But the Knicks

704
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:05,359
Speaker 1: have dogs who are going to crash boards. Josh hart Dante,

705
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:08,840
Speaker 1: Isaiah Hartenstein, isn't Hartenstein or hartenstein Stein?

706
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:09,839
Speaker 3: Which one is? And what?

707
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:11,920
Speaker 2: That's a great question because I've.

708
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 3: Heard people say different Yeah, people, I've.

709
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:15,760
Speaker 2: Heard multiple different ways.

710
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:19,240
Speaker 4: Myself, I've been wanting to ask him for his preferred

711
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:22,920
Speaker 4: pronunciation because that will make it official.

712
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:25,520
Speaker 2: Harten Stein.

713
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:28,719
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, it's what.

714
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 1: But he's a dog, and right now he smells blood,

715
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:35,919
Speaker 1: and the blood he's smelling is coming from Joel and Bid.

716
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:39,719
Speaker 1: Because he understands that he doesn't have he's not fully himself.

717
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:43,000
Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna I'm just gonna say, Isaiah, I

718
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,319
Speaker 1: don't want to disrespect him by saying the wrong last name.

719
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 2: Offensive rebound or Supreme.

720
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:50,720
Speaker 1: The offensive rebound and Supreme is crashing, which is putting

721
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:53,680
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure on Joeln Bid to box out,

722
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:58,520
Speaker 1: which Joel didn't box out, and know those last seconds

723
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:01,120
Speaker 1: got the office rebound, got back to Dante for a

724
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 1: second three and that three went in. But all throughout

725
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:08,719
Speaker 1: that series thus far, the Knicks have had guys that

726
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:10,839
Speaker 1: are just willing to do the dirty work. And so

727
00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:14,120
Speaker 1: Philly is going to have to identify some guys who

728
00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:15,719
Speaker 1: are willing to do that, who're gonna have to get

729
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:19,040
Speaker 1: down and dirty in order to make this a series.

730
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 2: Well, look, multiple things can be true.

731
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:24,960
Speaker 4: I mean, there is no question that Philly was robbed

732
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 4: on multiple calls. Late Maxi had his jersey grabbed. There

733
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:34,160
Speaker 4: was a foul that landed him on the ground. Nick

734
00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:36,040
Speaker 4: Nurse didn't get the time out. But I think what

735
00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:39,920
Speaker 4: you said is true too. The Sixers also participated in

736
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:40,800
Speaker 4: their own demise.

737
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:42,200
Speaker 2: There was a Kyle Lowry.

738
00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:44,799
Speaker 4: Miss free throw in there, And there's a couple things

739
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:48,960
Speaker 4: that work here. With all this talk about grievances and

740
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:53,320
Speaker 4: whether there's an official filing or not. Look, on one hand,

741
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:57,480
Speaker 4: it comes off as excuse making, and I don't know

742
00:41:57,520 --> 00:41:59,960
Speaker 4: that it's healthy for a team. But on the other hand,

743
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 4: and my sense is when it becomes so widely reported

744
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:07,000
Speaker 4: that a team is going to complain to the league

745
00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:13,279
Speaker 4: about the officiating in the first two games, then it

746
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:16,560
Speaker 4: stays in the headlines, it becomes a story, and maybe

747
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 4: it puts pressure on the game three, Game four referees.

748
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:24,280
Speaker 4: They know they're going to be watched super super closely.

749
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:30,120
Speaker 4: So I can see why the Sixers would also want

750
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:34,360
Speaker 4: that story to be known for their dismay to get

751
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 4: more coverage. But we'll see what effect it has now,

752
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:42,400
Speaker 4: because again shortly after this podcast drops three.

753
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 2: Huge game threes in the NBA.

754
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 4: Tonight before we go. Philly down two oh to the Knicks,

755
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:53,200
Speaker 4: Lakers down two oh to the Nuggets, Magic down two

756
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:55,239
Speaker 4: oh to the Cavs. Do you think any of those

757
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:57,759
Speaker 4: three teams can win their series? Can they get out

758
00:42:58,360 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 4: of a two to zero hole?

759
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:02,200
Speaker 3: Man, you said win the series? Wow?

760
00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:04,720
Speaker 2: I would probably give Philly the best chance.

761
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:06,440
Speaker 3: Yeah. Probably.

762
00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:10,359
Speaker 1: Well, if Joel is like how he is right now,

763
00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:11,640
Speaker 1: I don't I can't see it.

764
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 3: I can't see it.

765
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:16,360
Speaker 1: If Joel if this is how he's going to be

766
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:19,440
Speaker 1: all season with that knee, I don't see it.

767
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:25,120
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's gonna be tough. Yeah, that's a good call.

768
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:25,440
Speaker 3: I don't.

769
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:28,520
Speaker 1: I don't know who out of those other two old

770
00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:30,839
Speaker 1: series leads Lakers.

771
00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:33,640
Speaker 4: Can the Lakers dig out of a two to zero

772
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:37,279
Speaker 4: hole against the Nuggets, against the defending champs? Can they

773
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:41,839
Speaker 4: beat Nikola Jokic and co. Four times out of five?

774
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:44,879
Speaker 4: That is a hard one to imagine as well.

775
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:49,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why they played the game, looking forward to it.

776
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 2: All Right, Well, I'm glad we finally connected.

777
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:05,600
Speaker 4: It has been a circus of a week not often

778
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:09,239
Speaker 4: that we're both on the road. I will not be

779
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:12,680
Speaker 4: traveling as much for the rest of the playoffs as you,

780
00:44:13,040 --> 00:44:16,920
Speaker 4: so hopefully this was just a week one situation for

781
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:20,160
Speaker 4: the both of us. But I think something else happened

782
00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 4: in New York that you wanted to share with us.

783
00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:29,960
Speaker 1: Yes, I did, Stein. This is a personal monumental feat

784
00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 1: in the history of me. This was something that I've

785
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 1: always wanted to encounter, never had the chance to since

786
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:41,120
Speaker 1: I've been covering the NBA. My favorite player growing up,

787
00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:44,640
Speaker 1: favorite player of all time growing up was Latrell spree

788
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:47,600
Speaker 1: Will when he was playing for the Golden State Warriors,

789
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 1: and he was the reason why I really didn't growing up,

790
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:53,960
Speaker 1: I really didn't have a favorite team baseball.

791
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 3: I liked the Atlanta Braves. That was it.

792
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 1: But as far as that, like the NBA and NFL,

793
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:03,120
Speaker 1: I I liked players, and so I'm probably the start

794
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:06,920
Speaker 1: of the generation of fans who follow players wherever they go,

795
00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:09,320
Speaker 1: because that's what I did with the Treil Spriwill. But anyways,

796
00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:12,880
Speaker 1: growing up in Fresno, California. We got all the Warrior

797
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:17,320
Speaker 1: games televised, and this was when Michael Jordan had retired

798
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:19,799
Speaker 1: for the first time. I liked Michael Jordan like everybody else,

799
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:22,080
Speaker 1: but't I can't say I was in love with him,

800
00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:25,160
Speaker 1: but I liked him like everybody else. Then he retired.

801
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 1: I was looking for who's this next ballhead shooting guard

802
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:31,920
Speaker 1: type player that I can.

803
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:34,840
Speaker 3: Follow, and I Warriors game was on.

804
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:37,239
Speaker 1: I saw the Treil Spriull, who was probably in his

805
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:42,240
Speaker 1: second year at the time. He was doing these tomahawk dunks.

806
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:44,640
Speaker 1: Reminded me of Jordan a little bit.

807
00:45:45,680 --> 00:45:46,400
Speaker 3: He was young.

808
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:50,120
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm gonna follow him, and so I started

809
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:54,120
Speaker 1: wearing fifteen. I started wearing fifteen like Spree. Well, when

810
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:57,200
Speaker 1: I was able to dunk. My sophomore year in high school,

811
00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:00,920
Speaker 1: I started doing the tomahawk two hand dunk like Spree.

812
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:04,319
Speaker 3: And I remember in junior high. Junior high was when

813
00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:06,080
Speaker 3: I first started following Spreewall.

814
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:09,000
Speaker 1: So it's seventh grade and that was around the time

815
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:13,560
Speaker 1: where the NBA jersey started being popular. And at that time,

816
00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:17,280
Speaker 1: Champion used to make the jerseys and they were around

817
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:20,120
Speaker 1: forty four dollars at that time and I couldn't afford

818
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:22,680
Speaker 1: when my parents wouldn't give me a jersey. And I

819
00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:29,480
Speaker 1: remember me finding a surfing tank top around the house.

820
00:46:29,719 --> 00:46:32,040
Speaker 1: It was like a surfboard on the picture on the

821
00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:35,279
Speaker 1: front of this tank, white tank top, but it was

822
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 1: empty on the back, and I wrote spree well on

823
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:40,880
Speaker 1: the back and put fifteen.

824
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:44,399
Speaker 3: And I wore that thing to school and I.

825
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:48,359
Speaker 1: Got talked about like crazy, but I wore the like

826
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:50,640
Speaker 1: I was just determined to have Spree wall on the

827
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:53,680
Speaker 1: back of my jersey.

828
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:55,480
Speaker 3: So I've always wanted the meat Spree.

829
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:57,719
Speaker 1: And I followed him when he you know, when he

830
00:46:57,760 --> 00:46:59,759
Speaker 1: was when he went to the Knicks when the temblewles,

831
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:00,839
Speaker 1: I root it for him.

832
00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:02,520
Speaker 3: Never met Spree will before.

833
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:04,960
Speaker 1: I've been covering to leave for what thirteen years now,

834
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:08,920
Speaker 1: running to him at our hotel that was staying. That

835
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:11,880
Speaker 1: was still at the Renaissance Hotel, which is across the

836
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:14,640
Speaker 1: street from Masison Square Garden. He actually walks out the hotel,

837
00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:17,440
Speaker 1: so I had a chance to just talk to him

838
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:20,120
Speaker 1: for briefly because he was on the go, and I told.

839
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:21,680
Speaker 3: Him, man, man, Spree, I've been a fan of you.

840
00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:23,359
Speaker 3: Spree for three. Spree for three.

841
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:26,719
Speaker 1: That was the call the broadcast call whenever he was

842
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:28,840
Speaker 1: shooting three back when he was playing for the Warriors,

843
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:31,960
Speaker 1: sprae for three and I just told a little bit

844
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:33,080
Speaker 1: how I felt Man.

845
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:34,600
Speaker 3: And he took a picture. I sent you.

846
00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:38,560
Speaker 1: I sent you and our producer Tim the picture, and

847
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:41,800
Speaker 1: I was going to post about it. And I posted

848
00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:44,719
Speaker 1: about it today and put on Instagram if anybody wants

849
00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:49,040
Speaker 1: to see it on my Instagram. But I also put

850
00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 1: on Instagram like the moment I had with Spree. After

851
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:55,920
Speaker 1: that next game, ended up having a drink with Spree.

852
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:57,880
Speaker 1: Gave me a drink. You guys know I don't drink,

853
00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:01,680
Speaker 1: but I felt forced to take drink was Spree. Chess

854
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:05,080
Speaker 1: was burning like crazy. Took a little drake. He was like,

855
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:07,319
Speaker 1: oh okay, I can see you don drake. That's okay, Christy.

856
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:09,839
Speaker 1: They gotta take no more. But he said this to me, Star,

857
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:13,320
Speaker 1: He said, listen. He said, I've been watching you afar

858
00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:15,719
Speaker 1: for years and I'm a fan of what you do.

859
00:48:16,120 --> 00:48:18,400
Speaker 1: He said, So for you to tell me I was

860
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:21,799
Speaker 1: your favorite player growing up, he said, Man, that touched me.

861
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:26,480
Speaker 1: And he said, I never knew we had that connection.

862
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:28,319
Speaker 1: He said, so thank you for telling me.

863
00:48:28,360 --> 00:48:32,719
Speaker 3: Man. That made my day and Stein, to this day

864
00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:34,040
Speaker 3: the house that.

865
00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:36,640
Speaker 1: I grew up in. My parents still live at that house.

866
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:41,040
Speaker 1: In my room I got as I sent you pictures,

867
00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:43,840
Speaker 1: sent you and producer to pictures. That is how my

868
00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:48,040
Speaker 1: room is right now, still dirty. But you have three

869
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:51,760
Speaker 1: spree Well posters. They're really not posters. There are pages

870
00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 1: I took out of a magazine of a feature that

871
00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:58,520
Speaker 1: I forgot what magazine was, a feature that was done

872
00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:01,480
Speaker 1: on spree Well. But that's the way it looks in

873
00:49:01,520 --> 00:49:05,719
Speaker 1: my room right now with those Spreewel posters. So and

874
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:07,799
Speaker 1: I showed you guys a high school photo of me

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Speaker 1: wearing fifteen as well, so you know that was a

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Speaker 3: Moment for me to be able to meet him.

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Speaker 1: And you know a lot of times people have bad

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Speaker 1: experiences when they meet.

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Speaker 2: There, that's what they.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but you had a good one, great one.

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Speaker 1: And lastly, Stein, I want to say this, I was

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Speaker 1: twelve years old when I put these posters up on

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Speaker 1: my wall. That you see, Stein, go to the picture

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Speaker 1: I showed you is go to the picture of the posters.

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Speaker 1: The one poster I want you to pay attention to

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Speaker 1: is the one where he's wearing the blue Warriors Jersey.

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Speaker 1: Go to that real quick.

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Speaker 3: If you can.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I think I found it.

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Speaker 3: Reminded everybody.

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Speaker 1: I put these posters up when I was twelve years old.

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Speaker 1: This poster has been in my room ever since. I'm

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Speaker 1: forty two years old. Now you see that photo.

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Speaker 2: Stein NBA on TNT in the corner.

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Speaker 1: NBA on TNT on a corner of that poster. NBA

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Speaker 1: on TNT is on a corner of this the Trails

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Speaker 1: Spree World poster, the NBA on TNT. I would never,

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Speaker 1: in my wildest dreams ever would have thought that I

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Speaker 1: would be working for TNT as an NBA sideline reporter.

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Speaker 3: I'm at twelve.

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Speaker 1: I'm getting straight fs at this point, so I'm just man,

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Speaker 1: that's to me. I don't mean to get religious on people,

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Speaker 1: but you know, I believe that was God. Man, that

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Speaker 1: was that had this in my room the whole time

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Speaker 1: and had plans for me and I didn't even know it.

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Speaker 2: So you know, I'm hopeless on Instagram.

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Speaker 4: So did you post all the pictures you posted the

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Speaker 4: stuff from your room.

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Speaker 1: I post I post all those pictures. I posted up

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Speaker 1: the pictures, all the posters and the picture of me

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Speaker 1: wearing fifteen in high school. The picture of me and Spree, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'll post it all man just came back full circle.

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Speaker 3: So I had a.

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Speaker 1: Pretty That was a great trip in New York Man

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Speaker 1: to get the meat Spree.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 4: On that very warm note, we are going to put

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Speaker 4: a bow on this edition of This League uncut As always,

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Speaker 4: everyone please remember to follow us, rate the show, review

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Speaker 4: the show.

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Speaker 2: We would love to earn a five star review.

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Speaker 4: And who can resist that heartwarming tale that Chris Haynes

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Speaker 4: just shared about meeting the favorite player of his youth,

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Speaker 4: Latrell Spree will Nicks legend. All right, Chris and I

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Speaker 4: will get together again very very soon for another episode

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Speaker 4: as we both continue to cover these playoffs. As mentioned,

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Speaker 4: I'm headed back to Dallas to pick up mas Clippers

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Speaker 4: Game three and Chris he's got games three and four

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Speaker 4: in Miami and game five in Boston three of Celtics

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Speaker 4: Heat after doing Game two in Boston the Heat's stunning victory.

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Speaker 2: So stay tuned.

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Speaker 4: We will be back together with you very very soon.

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Speaker 4: Thanks everyone for listening, and that'll do.

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Speaker 2: It for us. See you next time. This League un

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Speaker 2: Cutters and iHeartRadio production. Chris Haines and mark Stein