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Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody to betting pros. It's time to place

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Speaker 1: your bets. It is me Joey Pa Joe Pisapia, and

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Speaker 1: today we're going to take a look at the NBA

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Speaker 1: Summer League. That's right. Basketball never stops around these parts.

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Speaker 1: And we already have the finals, that's in the books.

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Speaker 1: The NBA Draft is in the books. Everything is done.

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Speaker 1: But now we've got some of the kids are gonna

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Speaker 1: action coming up this summer, and it's gonna be exciting

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Speaker 1: because there's gonna be some lines coming up on it.

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Speaker 1: So we thought we'd bring in an NBA expert to

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Speaker 1: talk to us today. He's over from the Action Network.

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Speaker 1: You could check him out over there. You could check

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Speaker 1: him out on the Cash That Podcast, an NBA bet

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Speaker 1: show as well. It's Joe dealerra NBA writer video host.

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Speaker 1: You do it all, Joe. We appreciate you coming in here,

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Speaker 1: and we're coming off the NBA Draft, so exciting we

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Speaker 1: get some changeover in the league. What do you think

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Speaker 1: of the big center of the Spurs took here to

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Speaker 1: start things off, Victor when Bayama.

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Speaker 2: Dude, it's pretty awesome. One of my buddies just moved

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Speaker 2: to San Antonio, so I told him. I was like, well,

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Speaker 2: now I'm definitely gonna come visit you. So he's gonna

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Speaker 2: be transcendent. I'm really excited to watch him play.

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Speaker 1: Line of great Spurs centers to live up to too,

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Speaker 1: the Tim Duncan, David Robinson. That's how old I am.

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Speaker 1: I remember David Robinson. But we're gonna talk about some

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Speaker 1: of the kids. That's what we're really here for. So

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Speaker 1: the NBA Summer League is gonna kick off. The California

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Speaker 1: Classic is gonna be in Sacramento from July third through

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Speaker 1: the fifth. Same thing with the Salt Lake City League,

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Speaker 1: and then you have the NBA two K twenty four

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Speaker 1: League in Las Vegas starting up on the seventh of July.

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Speaker 1: So getting ready for that is very important. And Joe,

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Speaker 1: this is a very interesting mix because you've got guys

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Speaker 1: who are undrafted, You've got big rookie prospects involved here,

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Speaker 1: and you've also got some of these guys who are

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Speaker 1: really a big mix, a big melting pot, if you will,

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Speaker 1: with NBA potential talent. So when you're trying to, you know,

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Speaker 1: kind of parse through all those different pieces and all

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Speaker 1: these guys coming from all these different spots to one

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Speaker 1: place to play for a few weeks here. How do

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Speaker 1: you kind of, you know, in your head, look through

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Speaker 1: who are on rosters already or the guys fighting for

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Speaker 2: So I think it's interesting, right, Like some of these

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Speaker 2: their first year or their second year. A lot of

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Speaker 2: times those guys don't play as many minutes as you

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Speaker 2: would think. And it's like you said, the guys that

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Speaker 2: are fighting for roster positions or even some rotation minutes, right,

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Speaker 2: that food chain. Those are some of the guys that

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's the whole point here. Obviously, this is

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Speaker 1: about evaluating the talent first and foremost, and if you

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Speaker 1: have certain assets, you might want to protect them a

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Speaker 1: little bit. That being said, you also we're going to

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Speaker 1: look at them a little bit too. So do you

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Speaker 1: think that some of these big time prospects, and we're

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Speaker 1: to get significant enough minutes where when we start talking

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Speaker 2: They know what he can do, so it's not really

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Speaker 1: Now, one Minyama is not going to play in Sacramento.

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Speaker 1: We already know that, but he is expected to play

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Speaker 1: in Las Vegas. Now when he does, you mentioned potential

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Speaker 1: Do you think he's going to get the opportunity to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think the biggest one that I

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Speaker 2: at least defensively, and he's not then reliant on other

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Speaker 2: like the defensive props for him, and you know, hopefully

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Speaker 1: All right, let's continue on with another player to watch,

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Speaker 1: Brandon Miller of the Hornets. He was the number two

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, I mean, Miller's good. I mean he's

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Speaker 2: I think that it's one of those positions. Though I'm

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Speaker 2: He should get the plenty of opportunity in in Summer League.

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Speaker 1: Now Scoot Henderson fell to the Blazers with a third

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think Scoo's gonna be awesome. He kind of

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Speaker 2: I think he's going to start off like very strong.

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Speaker 2: We know that he is probably he might be the

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Speaker 2: I would definitely be considering him to be the MVP

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Speaker 2: of the Summer League. It's definitely a bet that i'd

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Speaker 1: That's some great insight there for that player too. You

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Speaker 1: want to talk about another guy with you, Joe here too,

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Speaker 1: which is Ouser Thompson. Now this is another player here

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Speaker 1: selected by the Pistons with the fifth overall pick. We've

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Speaker 1: also got Chet Holmgren, who last year made some noise

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'll talk about Chet. Let me I'll address

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Speaker 2: Chet first. I'm curious to see just how many games

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Speaker 2: he actually plays. Right, So, the Thunder are one of

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Speaker 2: the teams that's playing not only in Vegas, but also

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Speaker 2: in Salt Lake City, So that's a couple of games there.

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Speaker 2: I'm curious to see because Oklahoma City is still running

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Speaker 2: I'm curious to see if Chet maybe only plays in

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Speaker 2: Salt Lake. If he does play in Vegas, I'm a

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Speaker 2: little uncertain, you know, just exactly how many games he's

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Speaker 2: and what the load is there. But he's going to

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Speaker 2: be dynamite. I think he's going to be very good

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Speaker 2: so I'm looking to see that spark from him. And

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Speaker 2: then for Asar Thompson, he's he's awesome. Like both him

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