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Speaker 2: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. What is up

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Speaker 2: Straight Fire, fam, It's me Jason MacIntyre, Straight Fire for Tuesday,

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Speaker 2: February twenty seventh. I totally forgot it's a leap year

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Speaker 2: until I looked at the calendar because there's a billion

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Speaker 2: things to do this week. It is almost the leap

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Speaker 2: extra like your celebration of the birthday only every four years. Technically,

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know how leapyers work with birthdays.

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Speaker 2: Kind of a slow night in sports, like some decent

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Speaker 2: is going to be a massive story today. And I

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Speaker 2: get it. The NFL's over, and yes, the combine starts

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Speaker 2: this week and things will start to ramp up and

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Speaker 2: we'll get a juicy rumors coming out of Indy. That's

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Speaker 2: gonna happen. But I do believe as the NBA heats up,

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Speaker 2: we got like twenty three, twenty four games left in

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Speaker 2: the season, you know we're gonna start to see some

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Speaker 2: some players emerge as the big My dad uses this

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Speaker 2: very big ticket items, the big ticket names for this summer. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: Donothan Mitchell will be up there. We're gonna monitor what

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Speaker 2: happens with the Cavs in the playoffs. I think Trey

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Speaker 2: Young's gonna be up there. And I talked about this

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Speaker 2: on the Herd Monday, because he's out now for four

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Speaker 2: weeks probably the rest of the season. What if the

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Speaker 2: Hawks get hot without him and they're like, I can

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Speaker 2: see this team going forward without Trey Young, Let's move him. Okay,

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Speaker 2: but one player could top both of those and his

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Speaker 2: name is Lebron James. And why do I say that, Jason,

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Speaker 2: Come on, Lebron's thirty nine, he's turning forty what at

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Speaker 2: the in December? Because he shares her birthday with Tiger Woods. Well,

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Speaker 2: something went down on Monday with Lebron, and I'm still

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Speaker 2: trying to decipher for what it was. I spent I

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Speaker 2: but I spend a lot of time thinking like, why

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Speaker 2: did this come out now? So I'll start with this.

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Speaker 2: On Monday, ESPN decided to release a twenty twenty five

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five NBA Mont Draft, and my first thought was,

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Speaker 2: let me look at the calendar. Oh, it's twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 2: What the hell is this about? Okay, sixteen months in advance.

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Speaker 2: They don't usually do this, right, The focus should be

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Speaker 2: on twenty twenty four, who's gonna enter, who's not? High

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Speaker 2: school kids, reclassification, blah blah blah. You do the next

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Speaker 2: year after the draft happens. So I can see twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty five being a topic the day after the twenty

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Speaker 2: was interesting? Well, guess who was in the twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: five Mont Draft. Bronnie James. Well, wait, does that mean

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Speaker 2: he's not in the twenty twenty four Mont Draft. So

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Speaker 2: it was kind of not so spoken, and it's like, oh, so,

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Speaker 2: what does that mean Lebron's supposed son supposed to come out?

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Speaker 2: Wait a minute, he's not twenty twenty five. And then Lebron,

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Speaker 2: you know, as this game steam on the internet, you know, wait,

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Speaker 2: Bronny coming out in twenty five, not twenty four. Huh,

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Speaker 2: Lebron the King King James jumps on social media and

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Speaker 2: gets involved in. You guys know, I'm not a conspiracy

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Speaker 2: theorist like Joe Rogan Aaron Rodgers. I'm not one of

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Speaker 2: those Guys's who's the guy running for president, the Kennedy guy.

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Speaker 2: I'm spacing on his name, but I'm not on that level.

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Speaker 2: I do enjoy talking about them. They're fun, but like,

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna get all in the weeds in conspiracy theories.

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Speaker 2: But once the mock draft got out there, Lebron tweets

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Speaker 2: and of course it instantly goes viral. Can y'all please

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Speaker 2: just let the kid be a kid and enjoy college basketball.

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Speaker 2: The work and the results will ultimately do to talking

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Speaker 2: no matter what he decides to do. If y'all don't know,

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Speaker 2: he doesn't care what a mock draft says. He just

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Speaker 2: with and to all the other kids out there striving

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Speaker 2: to be great, just keep your head down, blinders on,

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Speaker 2: and keep grinding. These mock drafts doesn't matter one bit,

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Speaker 2: I promise you. Only the work matters. Let's talk real

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Speaker 2: basketball people. Almost like echoing JJ Reddick from last week, listen,

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Speaker 2: I like Lebron a lot. You guys know that I'm

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Speaker 2: It almost seems too coincidental, Robin. I'm not putting on

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Speaker 2: my conspiracy theory hat, but it just seems odd that

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Speaker 2: ESPN would drop a mock for twenty twenty five with

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Speaker 2: up to this point was Lebron Soun's coming out, and

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Speaker 2: then Lebron responds in oh, by the way, did you

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Speaker 2: see what Brian Windhorse said over the weekend? And it

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Speaker 2: got aggregated on Monday. Lebron James would like to spend

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Speaker 2: the rest of his time in Los Angeles, and he's

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Speaker 2: angling to sign a multi year deal with the team.

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Speaker 2: I think Lebron is angling to sign a multi year

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Speaker 2: deal in the offseason with the Lakers that will be

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Speaker 2: nine figures bigger than his deal is now. Not whether

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Speaker 2: or not he's able to finish the deal, whether or

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Speaker 2: not the Lakers want to give him a three year

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Speaker 2: contract to pay him sixty mil when he's forty two,

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Speaker 2: that's a different discussion. So let's Rob, I know you,

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Speaker 2: you big Laker guy. Rob has his funny thing future Laker. Rob.

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Speaker 2: Let's just let's connect the dots. ESPN mock draft that

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Speaker 2: Every other thing else was true. John twenty four, monk Winhorse,

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Speaker 2: Lebron angling to stay with the Lakers, three year deal,

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Speaker 2: big big, big money, Lebron jumping on social media. Whatever

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Speaker 2: he decides to do. Let's just let him play basketball again.

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Speaker 2: I like Lebron. This is on Rob. It almost seems like,

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Speaker 2: you know, Bronni had the heart issue and got a

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Speaker 2: late start obviously, but his minutes have been ratcheting up

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Speaker 2: the production. You know, it's not been there. He's a freshman. Okay,

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Speaker 2: it should not surprise anybody that he's kind of struggling.

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Speaker 2: But I guess what is shocking Rob is thirty seven

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Speaker 2: league with modest stats. You can't be a shooting guard

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Speaker 2: and deliver like this and expect to be like a

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Speaker 2: high pick or even a draft pick. Lebron James's son

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Speaker 2: has three double digit scoring games in his in his

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Speaker 2: young career. That's it. And I again, he was a

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Speaker 2: high prospect, highly rated prospect, and a lot of that

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Speaker 2: he is. I'm just gonna say I like Bronnie a lot.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure will he get in the league. Probably, You're

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Speaker 2: probably getting the league. I only I don't know if

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Speaker 2: he's gonna be a you know, all star. I don't

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Speaker 2: know if he's gonna be a starter. Uh, probably a

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Speaker 2: rotation player. Listen, it's hard to make the NBA on

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Speaker 2: his athleticism alone. He's gonna be in the discussion, but

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Speaker 2: I don't know, Rob, it's starting to smell like Lebron

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Speaker 2: that I have. I don't know if I've touched on

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Speaker 2: it with you, Rob privately or on the pod, but

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Speaker 2: I've heard a lot of not great things about the

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Speaker 2: USC program right now. In Andy Enfield, they are a

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Speaker 2: total trade wreck. They did beat UCLA over the weekend,

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Speaker 2: which was nice, but it sounds like the Enfield Bronni thing.

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Speaker 2: It's not like Enfield was out there beating. We gotta

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Speaker 2: get Bronnie. We gotta get Bronnie. I think it was

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Speaker 2: more of Andy. Here's Lebron's son, take him enjoy And

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Speaker 2: I don't know if we're gonna see like a mass exodus.

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Speaker 2: And maybe the program is kind of reshaped next year,

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Speaker 2: perhaps with Bronnie's son as the cent with Lebron's son

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Speaker 2: Bronnie as the centerpiece. I I don't know. I just

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Speaker 2: I don't feel great about this whole situation for Lebron

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Speaker 2: Rob I don't. And remember the Lakers are are mired

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Speaker 2: in ninth and it's like Lebron spending time as most

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Speaker 1: No, I'm right there with you, and I will put

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Speaker 1: on my conspiracy theory hat oh for this one, because

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Speaker 1: I'm very conflicted on it because on one hand, I

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Speaker 1: don't like talking about a freshman at USC Brownie James.

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Speaker 1: He's been in the spotlight. Now what for four five

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Speaker 1: high school basketball. Basically, we've talked about him. He's been

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Speaker 1: seen from then until now, he doesn't profile as a

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Speaker 1: is similar to a guy like Alex Caruso. He's a bigger,

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Speaker 1: If his jump shop ever comes around, he's a good

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Speaker 1: all that, though, part of this falls on the shoulders

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Speaker 1: of Lebron James. Just last month, after a game against Memphis,

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Speaker 1: Lebron is overheard in the Lakers locker room saying that quote,

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Speaker 1: Bronny could play for us right now.

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Speaker 1: Month and now he's saying, we just gonna let him

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Speaker 1: enjoy college basketball. Well, Bro, it's kind of your fault,

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Speaker 1: like you're the one who's saying this stuff too. So

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Speaker 1: conspiracy theory comes in. I believe that Lebron knows deep down,

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Speaker 1: early as next season, I think even he understands that

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Speaker 1: his son is just not ready, and that's part of

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Speaker 1: But because Lebron is who he is, and because he

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Speaker 1: I'm not ready to committee. I haven't been our decision yet.

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Speaker 1: One thousand percent Donovan Mitchell. And it's because we've seen

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Speaker 2: That's next level stuff. For those who liked the player

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Speaker 2: and you know Trey Young a little further down at

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Speaker 2: twenty four. Now you could argue, well, Donovan Mitchell has

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Speaker 2: But as you said, Young is not the most efficient guy.

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Speaker 2: You know, he's not gonna kill you in the mid range.

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Speaker 2: He is kind of a pound of dribble. I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: would go Mitchell. It's a little scary though. The clutch

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Speaker 2: sports aspect Rob And I don't know, do you like

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Speaker 2: if you're Atlanta and you're reshaping the roster around to

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Speaker 2: Janta Murray, does that mean you're gonna take clutch clients

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Speaker 2: from the Lakers like you're not taking I don't think

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Speaker 2: you're taking d'andelo Russell, are you? Ah No?

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Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what until Lebron gets his new

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Speaker 1: franchise in Vegas, which is going to happen like there's

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Speaker 1: kind of a back door wink wink, now nudge the

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Speaker 1: deal with Adam Silver that when the expansion team comes

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Speaker 1: to Vegas, Lebron is going to be the guy who

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Speaker 1: gets the first DIBs to buy it as the majority owner.

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Speaker 1: Until that happens, I believe the Lakers are gonna get

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Speaker 1: the right of first refusal for any big name clutch

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Speaker 1: that's the way things are gonna work, that Rich Paul

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Speaker 1: and Lebron are gonna gear their guys to La not

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Speaker 1: only to play alongside him and benefit him, but because

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Speaker 1: being with the Lakers comes with so many benefits that

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Speaker 1: just doesn't exist in most other NBA franchises.

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Speaker 2: Interesting, So when when is this Vegas franchise supposed to happen.

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Speaker 1: Oh so what Let's say Lebron plays another two three years.

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Speaker 1: I'd say by year five, we have a new team

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Speaker 1: in Seattle, new team in Vegas.

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Speaker 2: Lebron is the majority owner in Vegas transitions. Okay, if

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Speaker 2: you're Tree Young and you're the third guy, is that

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Speaker 2: better than like, say, Zach Levine is the third guy?

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Speaker 2: I'm being honest. I know people aren't a high on

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Speaker 1: You love Zach Levine, man?

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, listen, I know he's a passive defender,

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Speaker 2: but he's not as bad of a Trey defender's Tray Young.

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Speaker 2: And Zach Levine's a very good shooter. I mean, what

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Speaker 2: are you getting with Tray Young that you're not with

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Speaker 2: Zach Levine? The distribution? I mean, I guess with Levine,

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Speaker 2: if Lebron and Ad are healthy, I think Levine's an

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Speaker 2: awesome fit. But if Lebron goes down for twenty games

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Speaker 2: and now Zach Levine's running the show, and then, you know,

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Speaker 2: versus Trey Young, I'd rather have Trey Young run the

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Speaker 2: show for twenty games, right then?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? And then the other thing, and the biggest thing,

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Speaker 1: I think the biggest red flag for Levine is the

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Speaker 1: injury history. Like he's out right now, he's got bad knees.

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Speaker 1: I know he's a high flying act, but he's got

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Speaker 1: bad knees. And Trey Young for all of his deficiencies

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Speaker 1: so far, you know, currently notwithstand. He's got that hand

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Speaker 1: injury that he's gonna be out for four weeks, but

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Speaker 1: he's been mostly durable in the NBA for being such

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Speaker 1: a small guy.

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Speaker 2: We could wrap up with this. Trey Young was the

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Speaker 2: number one guy in high school when he was in Oklahoma,

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Speaker 2: and I mean number one by a mile. He was

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Speaker 2: the number one guy at Oklahoma when he played for

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Speaker 2: one season, and I mean a mile. He's never been

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Speaker 2: in a role where he's the number three guy. And

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Speaker 2: even though Lebron will be forty raw, Rob, I don't

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Speaker 2: want to hear. Oh, well, Trey Young will be the

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Speaker 2: number two and that's not gonna be the key, right,

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Speaker 2: Lebron's not taking a back seat. So how's Tree Young

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't think he would be the third option.

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Speaker 1: I think any Davis would be the third option.

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Speaker 2: Oh stop, you're gonna turn him into Chris Boston.

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Speaker 1: No, and he's the best player I believe currently of

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Speaker 1: those three guys even now, not even the saying of

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Speaker 1: their teammates, but his style of play. He focuses so

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Speaker 1: much on defense, and even this current Lakers team has

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Speaker 1: an issue where they'll go long stretches where it's like

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Speaker 1: Reeves will get three shots in a row, Russell will

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Speaker 1: take a couple, Prince will take a couple Lebron's, and

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Speaker 1: it's like they totally forget they got a seven foot

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Speaker 1: guy in the middle shooting sixty five percent from the field,

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Speaker 1: they averaging twenty five to twelve, and they don't even

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Speaker 1: get him the ball for long stretches. So you'll see

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Speaker 1: Anthony Davis in that sit a situation where he could

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Speaker 1: very well lead the team in scoring but not be

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Speaker 1: the featured offensive player. If that makes sense.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I promise we won't just do podcasts about Lebron

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Speaker 2: every single day.

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Speaker 1: I can't make that promise.

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Speaker 2: There are The problem is, Rob there are so many

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Speaker 2: juicy storylines around this Brony stuff, around this future Lakers deal,

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Speaker 2: around Trey Young, around on It's just it makes sense.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I know we should talk more about OKC

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Speaker 2: in Minnesota. Maybe Rob Can, we'll get a guest on

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Speaker 2: to talk about those guys. But for now that I

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Speaker 2: just I'm fascinated by this lebron thing. All right, that's

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Speaker 2: it for today or back tomorrow. Talk to you then,