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Speaker 1: Greetings, Welcome inside final hour tonight the Jason Smith Show

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Speaker 1: with my base friend Mike Harmon. Lakers over the Clippers

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Speaker 1: one twenty five one two is your final Everybody's healthy

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Speaker 1: for the Lakers every day. Wait at Nope, everybody was

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Speaker 1: in now Luka. Doncic did leave the game tonight for

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Speaker 1: a little while the third quarter, went back to the

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Speaker 1: locker room, came back out in his warm ups, but

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Speaker 1: after resting a few minutes, came back.

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Speaker 3: In for the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 1: Finished with thirty eight points and eleven assists, Austin Reeves

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Speaker 1: with twenty nine, Lebron with thirteen and eleven assists to

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Speaker 1: go along with three rebounds and a steal.

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Speaker 3: Look.

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Speaker 1: We talked about it in the first half. If the

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Speaker 1: Lakers are gonna make a run here in the set

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Speaker 1: in the back half of the season. Right now, finally

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Speaker 1: they're healthy, Like this is this is the lineup they

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Speaker 1: were expected to have, that they wanted to have the

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Speaker 1: entire season, right, but they just haven't. But now here

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Speaker 1: is Luca and Austin Reeves and Lebron and they are

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Speaker 1: all healthy and they are all back playing the delineation

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Speaker 1: of responsibility tonight. This is how the Lakers win. Look,

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Speaker 1: the Clippers have been playing pretty well even after the

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Speaker 1: hard and trade. You know, they'd won sixteen out of nineteen.

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Speaker 1: But then they trained hard and they trade Zubats. They

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Speaker 1: get Benedict Mathern, who wok twenty six more points night

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Speaker 1: in thirty two minutes. The guys played sixty six minutes

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Speaker 1: in the last two nights. He's got sixty six points

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Speaker 1: off the bench. Like that's he's a point a minute

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Speaker 1: dude off the bench for the Clippers.

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Speaker 4: He's been fantastic. But remember Kawhi Leonard left with the

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Speaker 4: ankle injury. Otherwise the Lakers lose. I mean, they don't

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Speaker 4: have to win shootouts, yeah every time, and then we'll

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Speaker 4: go to three on three like it's it's overtime in hockey.

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Speaker 1: But this is the way the Lakers, the way they

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Speaker 1: won tonight is the way if they're gonna be a

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Speaker 1: title team, if.

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Speaker 3: They're gonna they're gonna take a step.

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Speaker 1: It's gotta be Luca as the one, which, okay, we

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Speaker 1: understand that's gonna be it, and that's what it was.

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Speaker 1: Tonight took twenty five shots, thirty eight points tonight. Reeves

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Speaker 1: needs to be the second option and twenty nine for

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Speaker 1: him tonight fifteen shots from the floor, second most shots

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Speaker 3: This is how it has to go.

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Speaker 1: He needs to be the second option and Lebron needs

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Speaker 1: to sort of find the ways to impact the game.

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Speaker 1: Where you know, a big night of what the Lakers

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Speaker 1: box scorch should look like is just like it is tonight,

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Speaker 1: Luca thirty eight and eleven often Reeves with twenty nine

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Speaker 1: three and three. That's how the that's how the Lakers

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Speaker 1: are gonna win, not with Lebron taking on this big

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Speaker 1: role offensively where the team comes and grinds to a

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Speaker 1: halt because he's gonna take the ball and he's going

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Speaker 1: to do his thing. He's got to find a way

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Speaker 1: to now play within the offense a little bit more

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Speaker 1: being the third option. But it doesn't mean he doesn't

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Speaker 1: need to be someone that uh is just completely off

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Speaker 1: the off the beaten pet Like we saw him play

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Speaker 1: point guard for a while tonight, right, we saw him

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Speaker 1: play off the ball for a while tonight. This is

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Speaker 1: how it's is supposed to look for the Lakers, if

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Speaker 1: they're going to do it exactly how it went tonight.

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Speaker 3: This is how things are supposed to look.

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Speaker 4: With his minus seven yeah yeah, yeahbe and ribs yeah

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Speaker 4: oh no, he was absolutely felled by that bad, no, terrible,

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Speaker 4: questionable game.

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Speaker 1: But this is how this is how it's supposed to look.

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Speaker 1: And look, and Lebron was out there a lot of

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Speaker 1: times tonight when Luca was off the court and most

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Speaker 1: they're gonna win. Lucas the one reises the two and

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Speaker 1: Lebron to me, it's kind of like when Draymond was

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Speaker 1: more dynamics, much better offensive player than Draymond Green is.

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Speaker 1: So he's kind of like that that Draymond where I'm

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Speaker 4: Oh the stuff you know that doesn't show up in

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Speaker 4: the box square. It's gonna be a curiosity to watch.

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Speaker 4: They've got the tenth hardest schedule remaining, according to the

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Speaker 4: Fun World of Tankathon along the way. But if there's

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Speaker 4: anything about the Lakers, they are not gonna be boring

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Speaker 4: because they're gonna score a lot of points, all right,

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Speaker 4: every night. It's going to be a track meet. And

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Speaker 4: that's where you get worried for the end of the

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Speaker 4: season of what's left in the tank, and particularly as

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Speaker 4: you go towards the playoffs. If Lebron James is playing

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Speaker 4: thirty five heavy minutes tonight, he only played what did

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Speaker 4: he play today? He played thirty three in tonight's game.

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Speaker 4: Just over the course of the end of the season,

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Speaker 4: if that's still got to be your rotation, I wonder

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Speaker 4: how much is left in the proverbial tank for any

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Speaker 4: of these guys that to that end. But for now,

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Speaker 4: it's fun and exciting basketball, and you think about the

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Speaker 4: best of what they can be. Yeah, I mean this worked.

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Speaker 4: You got a little bit of contribution, not a ton

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Speaker 4: off the bench, man, It was your starters really carrying

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Speaker 4: you the whole way. You got twenty five bench points,

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Speaker 4: twenty percent of your scoring tonight.

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Speaker 1: Easy for me, Lakers with the wine. Meanwhile, not nearly

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Speaker 1: the biggest drama filled story to come out of basketball today.

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Speaker 1: We told you earlier this week the week is not

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Speaker 1: going to end without Mick Cronan apologizing for his actions

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Speaker 1: during UCLA's loss to Michigan State. Earlier this week that

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Speaker 1: got all kinds of attention that UCLA didn't want to

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Speaker 1: refresh you on it to go back Mick Cronin making

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Speaker 1: tons of news during UCLA's thrashing at the hands of

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Speaker 1: Michigan State. We watched Mick Cronin eject his own player

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Speaker 1: from the game because he thought he committed a hard

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Speaker 1: foul Stephen Jamerson gets thrown out of the game. You

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Speaker 1: because he thought he really went after a guy and

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Speaker 1: but it doesn't matter. Mc cronan decided, I'm gonna I'm

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Speaker 1: one does stuff like that, meaning that even if he did,

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Speaker 1: else other than this.

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Speaker 3: Right, Tom isn't.

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Speaker 1: Even said, I've never seen anything like that, so doubling

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Speaker 1: down on it. Mick cronin then went and was really

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Speaker 1: upset when he talked to the media in a scrum

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Speaker 1: coming when it comes to the Michigan State student section.

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Speaker 5: Because you're talk in the student section, channing Booker's.

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Speaker 6: Name, I couldn't give a rass ass about the other

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Speaker 6: team student section over all the way, well, I would

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Speaker 6: like to give you the kudos for your worst question

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Speaker 6: I've been asked all.

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Speaker 5: Right, did you like this should take it the preparation?

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Speaker 5: You really think I care about the other I don't

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Speaker 5: think you care about you.

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Speaker 3: Come on, dude, no reason, Yes you were.

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Speaker 5: Everybody's standing here listening to you.

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Speaker 3: Everybody this is on camera.

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Speaker 7: They can hear you.

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Speaker 5: I answered the question.

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Speaker 6: I could give a rat's ask about the other student

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Speaker 6: section if I caught UCLA. I don't care about the

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Speaker 6: Michigan State students.

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Speaker 3: Who cares? You know what?

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Speaker 1: You know what I didn't notice too. The beginning of

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Speaker 1: that played the beating again. He he really catches himself

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Speaker 1: because he's gonna say. I could give a blank, but

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Speaker 1: he catches himself really quickly and says, rats ass, play it.

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Speaker 3: Just listen.

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Speaker 1: He catches himself so fast as I could give it,

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Speaker 1: rats ass, go play one more time the student.

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Speaker 5: Section, channing Booker's name, I couldn't.

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Speaker 3: Give a rats right, Yeah, he was gonna say the answer,

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Speaker 3: but he did that, So this was I couldn't give

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Speaker 1: Doubly embarrassing for UCLA because none of this was warranted,

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Speaker 1: none of this behavior, none of this reaction to the question.

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Speaker 1: The guy wasn't raising his voice. His voice just got

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Speaker 1: higher right. But Mick Cronin completely is out of his

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Speaker 1: I'm surprised he wasn't suspended. But we said the week

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Speaker 1: of apology from Mick Cronin if in fact he's not suspended. Well,

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Speaker 1: today we got the apology. Stood in front of reporters

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Speaker 1: of the reporters apologizing, but he did say he apologized

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Speaker 3: Stephen Jamerson out of the game. Take a listen.

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Speaker 5: First of all, I want you guys to know something.

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Speaker 5: I already apologized to Steve. Okay, I thought that he took.

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Speaker 7: The guy out like the kid at Providence took the

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Speaker 5: It's the only reason I sent him to the locker room.

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Speaker 7: I thought he literally made a dirty play and tried

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Speaker 7: to wipe the guy out. Now I don't have the film.

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Speaker 7: Once I saw the film, I mean, he still got

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Speaker 7: even know if he deserved that. When I watched it.

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Speaker 7: You know, coaches thought the same thing when I communicated

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Speaker 7: Like you can't be down to you're getting your butt kicked.

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Speaker 7: Don't try to take somebody out, hurt somebody on the

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Speaker 7: other team, which is what I thought.

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Speaker 5: Now I'm sure always blocked him on the other end.

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Speaker 7: Obviously their reaction he might try to crush this kid.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so this is why this apology sucked. Okay, there's

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Speaker 1: a couple of reasons. Number one, the first time him

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Speaker 1: saying just so you guys know, I apologize to Steve. Well, okay,

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Speaker 1: you kind of need to apologize nationally because you aired

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Speaker 1: him out nationally. Became a national story from California to

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Speaker 1: from Maine to San Diego, talk and croon and everybody

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Speaker 1: knew about this. So no, you need to come out

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Speaker 1: and apologize nationally to him like that.

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Speaker 3: That's only fair. You can't talk.

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Speaker 1: Well, I did it behind closed doors, but that gets

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Speaker 1: into you heard his apology there. I thought he tried

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Speaker 1: to hurt him. I thought he tried to do this.

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Speaker 1: You don't do that to it, can you don't do this.

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Speaker 1: So number one, no matter what happens, he's not going

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Speaker 1: to have his kids back if they get into a

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Speaker 1: Now, he did talk about Steven and what kind of

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Speaker 1: now you've done on many different occasions, right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: Like there's certain places in the country where certain behaviors

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Speaker 3: They all do.

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Speaker 1: we're talking about a buy out. We're talking about something else.

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Speaker 1: Because I can't believe UCLA is going to go through

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 4: I like the extremes and the chaos of you've got

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Speaker 2: Paul Orndorf?

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Speaker 3: If you keep my family out of this? And then

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Speaker 3: there was a brawl and McK crona was throwing those yeah,

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Speaker 1: Exit out vouta Fresca exit swollen down the Jason Smith showing.

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Speaker 3: My bets Fred Mike Harbon.

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Speaker 1: So again, okay, hey, this has got to be your

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Speaker 1: major League Baseball, Steve how last chance, uh mc crona

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Speaker 3: I'm standing up in the studio.

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Speaker 1: Just wanted to wait a second there to see if

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Speaker 1: But we didn't, So okay, we can move on.

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Speaker 3: Wait did you say you want to do?

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Speaker 4: He said he was not really looking forward to celebrating

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Speaker 3: I said none of those things.

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Speaker 4: I sounded exactly like you said that.

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Speaker 3: I didn't. It didn't, It didn't.

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Speaker 1: But you know what, Frostburg the Lakers one tonight. You're

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Speaker 1: Go ahead, Well I can I still play it without

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Speaker 3: Sure, I don't think we'll ever see you there.

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Speaker 4: You know what the great thing about that Laker game

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Speaker 4: to the bathroom, head the bubble guts or something. We'll see, uh,

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Speaker 4: the theory testing as we go through. But the fact

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Speaker 4: slate that was.

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Speaker 3: Within fifteen points. Yeah, I mean look and that look,

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Speaker 3: that's you know.

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Speaker 2: I had basketball on a fright.

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Speaker 1: Look, we have a big basketball story to get you.

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Speaker 1: But you think about this and that that's another part

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Speaker 1: of the tanking aspect that we haven't really gotten into.

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Speaker 1: Right for all the the pro tanking and the and

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Speaker 1: the the you know, the the people that want to

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Speaker 1: tanking because that's what the NBA is allow. Okay, No,

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Speaker 1: the NBA can fix it, right, Mark Cube doesn't have

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Speaker 1: to have tanking. I think It's like Rachel Nickels say today,

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Speaker 1: like there needs to be tanking. There's so many bad

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Speaker 1: things that gonna come of tanking that we've outlined the

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Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. And not only that, but take

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Speaker 1: a look at it already because of tanking.

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Speaker 3: What are you seeing?

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Speaker 1: Every game is a blowout, Every game is a bleep

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Speaker 1: and blowout. Man, I can't I can't think that the

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Speaker 1: TV partners are gonna be happy with boy. TV rating

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Speaker 1: is a way down the tube, because what's gonna happen

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Speaker 1: when everybody is tanking?

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Speaker 3: People are gonna watch the games. Ah, we're gonna roll

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Speaker 3: over this team.

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Speaker 1: I'll keep an eye if I need to, but they're

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Speaker 1: not gonna play there, guys in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 3: I don't need to watch this.

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Speaker 1: The less that games seem like they're on the level,

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Speaker 1: people aren't gonna tune in. They're not gonna watch. And

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Speaker 1: I know that Mark Cuban wants to focus on things like, oh,

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Speaker 1: the experience for people at the game. Okay, I get that,

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Speaker 1: but remember it's more than that. It's you know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you can you could always charge a lot less for

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Speaker 1: tickets and concessions and parking and everything else. That goes

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Speaker 1: along with it if you really want to tank and

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Speaker 1: make sure that, hey, people can go sit in the

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Speaker 1: lower bowl for affordable tickets. But teams aren't gonna do that.

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Speaker 1: What about the what about the television audience that you

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Speaker 1: want people to watch these games? And there's games nationally televised. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're not going to play our guys.

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Speaker 3: What do we care?

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Speaker 1: We're not going to do it. Like, what do they

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Speaker 1: think is really going to happen? If like you allowed

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Speaker 1: tanking to go through as much as there's tanking now,

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Speaker 1: it would triple throughout the NBA. Every game would be

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Speaker 1: a blowout every single game. Teams are close winning games,

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Speaker 1: and they're saying, we're sitting our guys in the fourth

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Speaker 3: Right the Wizards said two of their guys who played.

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Speaker 1: In the in the Future Stars game in the All

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Speaker 1: Star sadom for last night against the Pacers in the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter.

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Speaker 3: Right like like what what? Like? What are we doing here?

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Speaker 3: You make you make tanking where.

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Speaker 1: Everybody can do it without any fear, any any any

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Speaker 1: repercussions at all. You are opening the door to something

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Speaker 1: that's absolutely terrible and and instead of saying allowed tanking.

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure the NBA and the commissioner has a

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Speaker 1: wide ranging latitude of powers that can fix things like

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Speaker 1: what do you want to do?

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Speaker 3: I'm only the commissioner. Oh, you're right, You're only the commissioner.

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Speaker 3: Those are only the owners. That's all you can do.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's such a load of crap that now

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Speaker 1: where like, oh, our hands are tied, so we kind

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Speaker 1: of have to allow tanking.

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Speaker 3: That's where we're at. We can't solve the problems. I

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Speaker 3: don't know what you want. We can't solve the problems.

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Speaker 4: Over the course of the night, nine games decided by

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Speaker 4: an average of eighteen points, including a fifty three no

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Speaker 4: fifty four point burial of the Trail Blazers by the

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Speaker 4: Denver Nuggets. All right, we'll take that one out because

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Speaker 4: that one's so ridiculously lopsided. The other eight games decided

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Speaker 4: by one hundred and twelve, so fourteen points. We had

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Speaker 4: three decided by fewer than ten points tonight.

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Speaker 3: I mean that sucks. Yeah, it's not great, not great, Bob,

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Speaker 3: not great.

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Speaker 4: Although there were a lot of big point totals. So

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Speaker 4: the over hit repeatedly.

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Speaker 3: Again. Look how fast you go right to the gambo.

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Speaker 4: I gave you a lot of analysis, and then I

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Speaker 4: got you to the well and I took your hand

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Speaker 4: and I said, Drake.

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Speaker 3: Okay, now you're getting defensive about it.

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Speaker 1: We did we didn't. We'll have an intervention next week.

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Speaker 1: Well we'll do that next week because.

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Speaker 4: All I want, all I wanted was the truth. I

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Speaker 4: think you're taking someone give me the truth.

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Speaker 1: I think you are like like like live, live, live,

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Speaker 1: gambling on so many things.

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Speaker 4: I'm watching the replay of the game. I got Billy Bats,

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Speaker 4: I got replays.

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Speaker 3: Of the Olympics, Life, life is well.

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Speaker 1: Mike's a couple of shows away from calling one hundred gambling.

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Speaker 4: I might be Mike sitting with the gold chains setting us,

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Speaker 4: setting up for the day's events.

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Speaker 3: If you call my hotline now, but I have four

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Speaker 3: short fire winners for you. But you have to call me.

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Speaker 2: You have to call me right now, Centuary.

440
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Speaker 3: Here's my phone number.

441
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Speaker 2: I graded a ten. I graded a ten.

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Speaker 3: It is a gem. Mid play of the day.

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Speaker 1: I missed those shows that used to be on the radio,

444
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Speaker 1: like Sunday Mornings, where they're still there like for like

445
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Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. The guy would just say, I have a

446
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Speaker 1: block of the year, Coupan. You have to and give

447
00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:07,919
Speaker 1: out his phone number like thirty five times, but you

448
00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:09,359
Speaker 1: have to call me and I will.

449
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Speaker 3: Give it to you. You have to call.

450
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Speaker 4: Yeah, those guys are there. You want real information? Countdown

451
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Speaker 4: to kickoff of my bet MGM Saturday and Sunday mornings.

452
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Speaker 1: So if you think tanking is the only problem that

453
00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:24,520
Speaker 1: the NBA is dealing with, well I'll tell you something that's.

454
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Speaker 3: Just as big a deal.

455
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Speaker 1: Apparently, Pablo Tory has become the biggest thorn in the

456
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Speaker 1: side of the NBA. Didn't see this coming, but when

457
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Speaker 1: Pablo Tory wants to find something out, he will find

458
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Speaker 1: something out, not just about Kawhi Leonard and planting trees.

459
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Speaker 3: He woned a podcast.

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Speaker 1: Yesterday and talked about how following the NBA Draft lottery,

461
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Speaker 1: the one we just had last year where the Mavericks

462
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Speaker 1: won the number one overall pick, right, this was a

463
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Speaker 1: couple of months after they made the trade for Luka

464
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Speaker 1: Doncicch and it was such an earth shattering trade. In

465
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Speaker 1: the reaction of it across the league was what are

466
00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:04,320
Speaker 1: we doing? We're trading away a big superstar.

467
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Speaker 3: How are we doing this? Well?

468
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Speaker 1: The Mavericks then won the draft lottery, and of course

469
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Speaker 1: they drafted Cooper Flagg, who was the big prize. It

470
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Speaker 1: is shown to be every bit worth of what you

471
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Speaker 1: would what you would get when you want to draft

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Speaker 1: a guy.

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Speaker 3: Number one overall.

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Speaker 1: He said in the podcast, he talked to two NBA owners, Okay,

475
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Speaker 1: not people on the team.

476
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Speaker 5: Not.

477
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Speaker 1: He talked to two owners in the hours after the

478
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Speaker 1: draft lottery who said they thought the draft lottery was

479
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Speaker 1: fixed for the Mavericks to get the number one pick

480
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Speaker 1: because of what happened with Luca. That they were that

481
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Speaker 1: they it was fixed for them to get the number

482
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Speaker 1: one overall pick. And I used to be of a

483
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Speaker 1: of an ilk of you know, if something like that

484
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Speaker 1: is fixed, eventually we would find out people would talk.

485
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Speaker 3: No one could keep their mouths shut.

486
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Speaker 1: I mean, how are you going to do something like

487
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Speaker 1: that and not have it get out there. But the

488
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Speaker 1: last few years there's just been all sorts of craziness,

489
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Speaker 1: whether you're talking about the NBA Draft and teams winning

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Speaker 1: the draft lottery like you talked about it earlier in

491
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Speaker 1: the show. Right, Hey, Lebron goes to Cleveland, Derreck Rose

492
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Speaker 1: goes to Chicago. Right, We've seen it many times all

493
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Speaker 1: the way through. You talk about that, you talk about

494
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Speaker 1: the officiating for the NFL when it comes to the

495
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Speaker 1: Chiefs at home and there's just so much smoke, right, there.

496
00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:27,520
Speaker 3: Is so much smoke. It's like there's only a little

497
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Speaker 3: bit of smoke.

498
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Speaker 1: It's probably somebody, you know, burning something on their grill.

499
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Speaker 3: They're cooking out. Boy, the smoke is bigger. Yeah. I

500
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Speaker 3: think it's probably right over the side of our fence

501
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Speaker 3: in the back. Yeah. Oh, the smoke is kind of

502
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Speaker 3: in the air ahead of Yeah.

503
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Speaker 1: I think it's probably getting blown in from somebody else

504
00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:44,359
Speaker 1: who's probably cooking out down the road. No, the smoke

505
00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:47,119
Speaker 1: has filled the entire backyard. It's in the house now, Okay,

506
00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:49,760
Speaker 1: something is going on, Like there has been so much

507
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Speaker 1: smoke with this. We're at the point where there is

508
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Speaker 1: no more public trust in NFL officiating and the NBA

509
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Speaker 1: Draft lottery. Right, nobody trusts either of those things now

510
00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:05,200
Speaker 1: because it's NBA. We're talking about the draft lottery here.

511
00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:06,639
Speaker 1: There is no more trust in that.

512
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:06,880
Speaker 3: Now.

513
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Speaker 1: You have owners and I don't think Pablo to he's

514
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:10,840
Speaker 1: not gonna put his career on the line by lying

515
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Speaker 1: about two owners telling.

516
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Speaker 3: Him they thought it was fixed.

517
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Speaker 1: When you have owners saying something like this and there's

518
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Speaker 1: evidence that you can't ignore, going wow, how would this

519
00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:21,199
Speaker 1: the odds here of getting the pick? This is what

520
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Speaker 1: they wound up getting. I can't ignore that, man. But

521
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Speaker 1: the main thing is I can't ignore that there's no

522
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Speaker 1: public trust in these things. So it doesn't matter how

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Speaker 1: much evidence there is that something is rigged or not.

524
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Speaker 1: If there's no public trust, you gotta change. You gotta

525
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Speaker 1: change how things are done. You got to figure out

526
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Speaker 1: a different way to do things because the last in

527
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Speaker 1: the NBA needs on top of the tanking scandal, which

528
00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:46,159
Speaker 1: is going to turn fans off. Now, oh now the

529
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Speaker 1: draft lottery might not be fixed.

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Speaker 3: Whoa, whoa, whoa.

531
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Speaker 1: You gotta do pr damage to let everybody know our

532
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Speaker 1: product is safe, everything is safe, We are doing things

533
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Speaker 1: above board.

534
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Speaker 3: We got to fix it.

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Speaker 8: Now.

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Speaker 1: That wouldn't That would require Adam Silver actually get up

537
00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:02,720
Speaker 1: and do something which he doesn't want to do. But

538
00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:04,320
Speaker 1: then again, this is the result when you have a

539
00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:06,680
Speaker 1: commissioner doesn't want to do anything you deal with tanking

540
00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:08,399
Speaker 1: because it gets so bad he won't do anything. You

541
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Speaker 1: deal with the NBA Draft lottery because he doesn't do anything.

542
00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:13,520
Speaker 1: So I don't think for a second he'll fix one

543
00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:16,640
Speaker 1: of those things, let alone both of them. But this

544
00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:19,440
Speaker 1: draft lottery has become just as big of an issue

545
00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:24,200
Speaker 1: as tanking because if it doesn't matter, like the perception

546
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Speaker 1: is reality, there's no truer thing in the world than

547
00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:30,320
Speaker 1: that that hey, maybe it is a whole thing that

548
00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:33,120
Speaker 1: the NBA Draft lottery has never been fixed and there's

549
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:35,879
Speaker 1: never no cold envelope in eighty five and it just

550
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:38,840
Speaker 1: looks that way, but it doesn't matter because the perception

551
00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,080
Speaker 1: is it's not. And when it isn't, you're not going

552
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:43,400
Speaker 1: to suddenly win people back. Now I can say, oh,

553
00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:45,680
Speaker 1: I'll let it go and fair. No, I mean you

554
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:48,040
Speaker 1: got to do something to fix that. So now suddenly

555
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Speaker 1: the draft lottery, which is waged a certain way, guess what,

556
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Speaker 1: that's got to change. And that's got to change. If

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Speaker 1: you can't do it for this year, that's got to

558
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Speaker 1: change for next year. And there's got to be things

559
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Speaker 1: that go along with it alongside tank. You can't just

560
00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:03,440
Speaker 1: say well, no, you got to combat tanking and the

561
00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:06,399
Speaker 1: draft lottery and come up with something. You need to

562
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Speaker 1: do it now. There's good ideas that are out there.

563
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:10,320
Speaker 1: But do I think for a second Adam Silver is

564
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:12,040
Speaker 1: gonna do it? No, and said he's probably gonna do

565
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Speaker 1: something halfway. Well, we're gonna do something a little bit here,

566
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:17,120
Speaker 1: a little bit because I really don't want to upset anybody.

567
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:18,879
Speaker 1: I don't want to upset owners, I don't want to

568
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:21,480
Speaker 1: upset players. So we're gonna just dip my toes in

569
00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:23,679
Speaker 1: a solution. And it's gonna be a half ass solution

570
00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 1: because that's kind of the way it's gonna go. So

571
00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:28,480
Speaker 1: we're still gonna be dealing with this. But make no mistake,

572
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Speaker 1: if you don't have if there's no public confidence in something,

573
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Speaker 1: any business would change that optic immediately.

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Speaker 4: Well, sometimes you have to dip the toes in the

575
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:41,640
Speaker 4: solution because you got to keep those feet clean and healthy.

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Speaker 3: It's all you got, key, And that's why I go.

577
00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:46,720
Speaker 3: It's why I go for pedicures all the time. They

578
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Speaker 3: take care of it for you.

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Speaker 4: There you go and you can take a nice nap

580
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Speaker 4: while they take care of that. But for Adam Silver,

581
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:55,720
Speaker 4: look the draft lottery for all these years, and you

582
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Speaker 4: mentioned a couple of the biggest ones. There's always been

583
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Speaker 4: a lot of Yeah, what are you gonna do? Cause

584
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,560
Speaker 4: the product is the product, and you move on. Uh

585
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:08,399
Speaker 4: this I think with Pablo Tore this time around with

586
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 4: the Hey, two owners told me this. This is the

587
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Speaker 4: equivalent of putting in a smoke bomb into the room

588
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:19,760
Speaker 4: and saying, come luck with that.

589
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:23,159
Speaker 2: Owners and governors together.

590
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Speaker 3: It's like, I suss that out.

591
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:29,480
Speaker 4: Two of you called out and told me the jig

592
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Speaker 4: is up, figure out who it is.

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Speaker 3: Go ahead.

594
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:36,439
Speaker 4: But the more people that are involved, right, it's every

595
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,360
Speaker 4: movie and television show you've ever seen where there's a conspiracy.

596
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Speaker 3: What happened?

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Speaker 4: I mean you referenced Goodfellows earlier, what happens to all

598
00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:47,440
Speaker 4: of them? You're finding them frozen in the meat containers

599
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:48,359
Speaker 4: and everything else.

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Speaker 2: Same thing here.

601
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 4: It becomes the Hey, if a lot of people know,

602
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:54,480
Speaker 4: you got to shut them up somehow. So it's either

603
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:59,720
Speaker 4: giant checks, the membership to that club, et cetera. So

604
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:05,480
Speaker 4: until you get someone to go on record, it's great

605
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:08,720
Speaker 4: in theory, But yeah, the tanking problem and eighty four

606
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Speaker 4: solutions that were offered and profit earlier this week are

607
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:16,359
Speaker 4: the way Adam Silver has to navigate. But tonight's results

608
00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:20,400
Speaker 4: ain't gonna help you again. Bridge margin of victory, including

609
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:23,640
Speaker 4: that debacle in Portland eighteen points a game.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific,