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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. What is up,

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Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, it's your boy Jason McIntyre Straight Fire

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Speaker 1: for Wednesday, March three. It was an interesting night in sports.

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Speaker 1: I felt like I watched more college and NBA on

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Speaker 1: Tuesday night than I had in a while. After I

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Speaker 1: beat up all my little son in chess in the afternoon,

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Speaker 1: I hunkered down for that Baylor uh w VU class.

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Speaker 1: Really good game. I better on it, got lucky and

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Speaker 1: Baylor came back to cover. But listen, I wanted to

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Speaker 1: make this podcast about the NFL because we had such

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Speaker 1: good response to the Dak Prescott discussion with Neuis Scrugs

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Speaker 1: from yesterday. I wanted to kind of go to the

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Speaker 1: next level. But there really wasn't anything in the NFL there.

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Speaker 1: They were just nothing. Popped off. Listen this doc. I

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Speaker 1: want to be paid like have My home story is nonsense,

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Speaker 1: but I'm not talking about that now. I know I

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Speaker 1: have a duty to do a daily podcast and I

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Speaker 1: gotta hit whatever's hot. But that's that's asinine, that's stupid.

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Speaker 1: It makes no sense. Come on, Dak Prescott, I want

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Speaker 1: to get paid like Patrick Mahomes. Are you kidding me, Like,

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Speaker 1: that's just that's schilly. That's not even like a real

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Speaker 1: sports story. There is zero chance that Dak Prescott walked

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Speaker 1: into the meeting with Jerry Jones and Stephen Jones said, Yo,

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Speaker 1: Patrick Homes at the market. Um, I need to get

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Speaker 1: what Patrick Mahomes got, Like, there's just no way there's

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Speaker 1: dad has no when you okay, why because that's what

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Speaker 1: the market says. No, that's not how it works. This

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Speaker 1: is not selling a house. Okay, if you want to

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Speaker 1: say make this selling a house, Dack, fine, we'll give comps.

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Speaker 1: Who are your comps? Carson Wentz? Okay, well we'll look

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Speaker 1: at that. Carson Wentz too. That was awful. We already

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Speaker 1: regret it, and we already dumped him. Is Jared goffa comp?

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Speaker 1: I mean he went to a Super Bowl? Um? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: like Jared Goff already done and with the Rams, Like,

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Speaker 1: if you want to talk comps, we can, But Patrick

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Speaker 1: Mahomes ain't the name to come out your mouth. So

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Speaker 1: I'm done with Dak Prescott for now. Obviously we'll revisited

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Speaker 1: when the Cowboys make whatever decision they do. It would

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Speaker 1: be foolish to tag him. I say, let him walk.

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Speaker 1: But you gotta have a deal in your back pocket

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Speaker 1: for Russell Wilson, and I don't know that that's there.

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Speaker 1: But um, I don't want to make this all cowboys

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Speaker 1: all the time, although you know, truth be told. Right now,

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Speaker 1: they are the story because a lot of dominoes fall

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Speaker 1: after two guys make a decision. What's da gonna do? Uh?

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Speaker 1: Is he gonna get franchise tags, sign a long term deal?

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Speaker 1: Or is Dallas gonna let him walk? Then becomes well,

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Speaker 1: if Dallas is letting him walk, it's gotta be for

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. They can't get into Deshaun Watson sweepstakes, and

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Speaker 1: then what happens with Watson? Right now, I would rank

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Speaker 1: it Miami Carolina Jets. These things are fluid. It is

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Speaker 1: only March three. It's very liable to change here in

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Speaker 1: a week. So let's get to basketball for a second.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna spend too much time on the paper

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Speaker 1: clips choking away another one, an other one bites the

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Speaker 1: dust for the paper clips. Close game, fourth quarter with Boston,

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Speaker 1: and what happens. Clippers lose, Clippers lose, Paul George stinks

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Speaker 1: up to joint again in the fourth. Now the reason

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Speaker 1: I'm not spending much time on this is because Kawhi

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Speaker 1: Leonard did not play load management. Kawhi Leonard sat out

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Speaker 1: and Boston wins again. Just remember I put it out there,

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Speaker 1: Boston was the team to challenge, Um, the Brooklyn Nets

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Speaker 1: in the East that will come to fruition. You will

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Speaker 1: remember it. You will say Man McIntyre was all over that.

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Speaker 1: Damn he good um elsewhere in the association. You know,

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Speaker 1: I did bet on Atlanta. They fired their coach. Lloyd

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Speaker 1: Pierce's probably not worth talking about. And you know after

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Speaker 1: the coaches fired in the NFL, there's always this, oh,

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Speaker 1: they just fired their coach, they're in disarrayed. Let me

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Speaker 1: bet against them. That's the wrong way to do it.

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Speaker 1: Usually you bet on the team that fired their coach.

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Speaker 1: They come out inspired. I bet on the Hawks. They

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Speaker 1: were dogs against the Heat. I didn't even know Jimmy

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Speaker 1: but Buckets was out. Butler, by the way, man rough year,

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Speaker 1: coming off that bubble performance where he was heroic and uh,

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Speaker 1: And I'm just gonna say this about Jimmy Butler for

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Speaker 1: the Knicks fans who are begging me to talk about

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Speaker 1: Thibodeaux and the Knicks. Okay, Nicks, by the way, got

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Speaker 1: smashed Tuesday night by the Spurs. Tom Thibodeau just rides

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Speaker 1: his best players heavy minutes every week and then by

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Speaker 1: the time they hit thirty historically a few of them

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Speaker 1: I mean, listen, I'm not gonna really bring up Derrick

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Speaker 1: great on those Bulls teams. They're not gonna get by

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Speaker 1: second in the league in minutes played. And listen, it's working.

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Speaker 1: There are five hundred. But zoom out for a minute

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Speaker 1: and look at the Knicks. Okay, there could be some upside. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I don't know about Obi Toppin. We don't know what

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Speaker 1: The dunk contest, by the way, not that appealing. Three

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Speaker 1: fade them in the second half. I'll be writing a

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Speaker 1: the NBA second half of the season. Fading the Knicks

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Speaker 1: And at that point it's like, Okay, we got to

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, hooray, what's next? And they got a lot

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Speaker 1: of cap room, and yes, they maybe appealing to free agents,

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Speaker 1: but overall, like there's just there's not that much greatness

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Speaker 1: to see a big star. I don't want to hear Oladipot.

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Speaker 1: If you guys can convince Karl Anthony Towns to you know,

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Speaker 1: to what I think is the biggest story in in

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Speaker 1: the NBA uh here on Wednesday, and it involves James Harden,

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Speaker 1: the man, the myth, the legend. James Harden is getting

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Speaker 1: his number retired by the Houston Rockets, And of course

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Speaker 1: everybody's just totally bagging on the Rockets, like, ah, what

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Speaker 1: They've lost what fifteen in a row now it's like

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Speaker 1: the Dream is number one all time. But I mean,

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Speaker 1: James Harden has to be the second best player in

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Speaker 1: franchise history, right, I mean Harden is he was incredible

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Speaker 1: hold this over Harden's head that, oh, he begged out

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Speaker 1: of Houston, there's no way he can be an m

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Speaker 1: What does it matter? And we talked about this. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: in life, to get where you want to be, you've

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Speaker 1: got to have some ugly things happen, right And the

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Speaker 1: way he left Houston, yeah, was ugly, but it had

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Speaker 1: to happen. Why because the Brooklyn Nets are now favorites

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Speaker 1: to win the NBA Championship. Hello, worked, it's smart. The

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Speaker 1: Rockets are a flaming dumpster fire right now? What what

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Speaker 1: do you mean the way he left Houston? What superstar

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Speaker 1: ever leaves with grace that's extremely difficult to force the

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Speaker 1: not pretty. Jimmy Butler leaving Chicago, not pretty. Kyrie Irving

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Speaker 1: the Calves. A year later, he's demanding out um Anthony

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Speaker 1: Harden forced his way out. So what that should definitely

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Speaker 1: afraid of James Harden is because ultimately the Nets are

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Speaker 1: going to finish with the best record in the NBA.

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Speaker 1: James Harden is gonna be the main reason why not Durant,

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Speaker 1: not Kyrie. And there's gonna be massive support for James

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Speaker 1: Harden to win the m v P. But you guys

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Speaker 1: and that's the media. And the media has seen this

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Speaker 1: before hard in the m v P, Harden doesn't get

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry to be disrespectful to Joel Embiid. I just

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Speaker 1: big picture, Joel Embiid just he's not gonna get it.

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Speaker 1: They're not gonna finish number one. I don't even know

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Speaker 1: if they're gonna fish two. I'm telling you right now,

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Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Bucks are starting to percolate. You know how

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Speaker 1: right now the stage of the Milwaukee Bucks. And I'm

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Speaker 1: the Bucks struggled without him. Once the Bucks get it

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Speaker 1: and I believe it will be Brooklyn number one, Milwaukee

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Speaker 1: Joel Embid is gonna probably miss twelve to thirteen games,

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Speaker 1: and it's like, okay, and be'd missed a bunch of games,

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Speaker 1: Like can he really win the m v P. He's

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Speaker 1: gonna have good numbers. I mean, we already know what's

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Speaker 1: gonna happen in the playoffs. Doc Rivers is the coach, Okay,

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Speaker 1: Joel embiid Ben Simmons, and then I don't know who

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Speaker 1: their third best player is. I don't want to hear

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Speaker 1: Steph Curry is that he's not He's very good, He's

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Speaker 1: a good four, he's not a good three. Danny is

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Speaker 1: not Danny Green. It's not Mattiste tibel and and Tobias Harris. Guys,

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Speaker 1: if he's like, I guess, But now you're looking at

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Speaker 1: your best three players being what is and beat is

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Speaker 1: seven ft. I think Simmons is six nine and Tobias

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Speaker 1: Harris is six eight. In a league where you need

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Speaker 1: by wings, Tobias Harris does not have the handle to

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Speaker 1: Ben Simmons is limited because of the lack of three

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Speaker 1: point ability. And now you're just talking about Joel Embid

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Speaker 1: like they're built differently, and I understand the logic behind

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Speaker 1: So wouldn't that go further, you know, developing that line

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Speaker 1: calling ya Yaoming a iconic UM basketball player. But in

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Speaker 1: terms of what else he did for the league, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's certainly understandable. Okay, Well, it's fitting that you brought

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Speaker 1: up Brad Doherty because he's the guy who made some

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Speaker 1: headlines UM on a Tuesday where he said that James

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Speaker 1: Harden is absolutely the best player in the NBA. I

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Speaker 1: think it's kind of segways to the m v P,

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Speaker 1: you know, nugget that you dropped earlier in the pod.

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Speaker 1: I a thousand percent think that if the m v

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Speaker 1: P race is closest right now, it is. I think

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Speaker 1: Lebron and be Harden all kind of right there. If

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Speaker 1: it's Curt okay, all right, if it stays nip and

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Speaker 1: tuck the way it is, I think that they are

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Speaker 1: going to count that Houston exit against him and he's

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Speaker 1: not going to win the m v P. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: don't totally disagree. But at the same time, I also

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Speaker 1: think they've given him the m v P. How many

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Speaker 1: have said one or two is one? One? Okay? They

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Speaker 1: gave him the m v P and then he flamed

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Speaker 1: out in the season, Like they remember that. The NBA voters, right,

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Speaker 1: this is not a thing where it's like, oh, if

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Speaker 1: you have the best stats, you're the m v P.

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Speaker 1: Like the voters have a huge say like Steph Curry

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Speaker 1: ain't gonna win another one. They've given him to. Okay, Janice,

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Speaker 1: no matter what happened, the Bucks could win twenty five

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Speaker 1: straight games. Janice is not getting a number another m

446
00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:22,760
Speaker 1: v P. He's just not. I mean, I think Harden

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00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:25,720
Speaker 1: will have a great chance, but ultimately it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: tough to pass up Lebron. It's just it is um

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Speaker 1: and I mean, I know the entire Lakers team is

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Speaker 1: hurt right now. Kuzma got sold with the COVID protocols

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00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:38,359
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis, Like Lebron's just carrying them. He's putting them

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Speaker 1: on his back and as long as their top three.

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Speaker 1: I think in the West, I think Lebron will get it.

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Speaker 1: I agree now doubt. Do you think sticking with that

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Speaker 1: James harden Vain were because he's sabotaged what was like

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Speaker 1: five games. I think with Houston, does the fact that

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Speaker 1: the Lakers, the Lakers were so bad during that stretch

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Speaker 1: when they didn't have a D, didn't have shrewder last

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Speaker 1: week I think they went they lost four straight. Do

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Speaker 1: you think something like that gets counted against Lebron in

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Speaker 1: the m v P. Because again, when it's close, just

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Speaker 1: like in any debate, like when you're debating the greatest

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Speaker 1: of all time, you know, Lebron, Jordan's, Kareem, whatever you like,

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Speaker 1: you have to pick nits because they're all so good

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Speaker 1: that you kind of have to pick at the littlest

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Speaker 1: thing to to to elevate the guy that you want.

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Speaker 1: So I think this m v P race is going

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Speaker 1: to be really close going all the way down to

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Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks of the season. Do you

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Speaker 1: think that the way that the Lakers were getting blown

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Speaker 1: out on national TV for like three straight games, did

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Speaker 1: that count against because they say, hey, well look you

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Speaker 1: were the m v P. But when their team really

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Speaker 1: needed you, and A d was out and Shrewder was out,

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Speaker 1: your team sucked. I think these m v P races

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Speaker 1: have a lot to do with how you started the

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Speaker 1: season and how you ended. Like these, like a four

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Speaker 1: game stretch in early February, I don't think it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be that definitive for an MVP race. There's so much

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Speaker 1: behind you now. Historically, guys who jump out to an

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Speaker 1: early needs stay up there. They stay in the mix

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Speaker 1: all season. Um, Lebron, though, is gonna we know he's

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Speaker 1: not short of injury. He's gonna be fine. He's gonna

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Speaker 1: be right there in the mix. Uh, and I think

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Speaker 1: he'll get it. But yeah, these voters, they're not gonna

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Speaker 1: pick nits the way these jackasses. Due for the Michael

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Speaker 1: Jordan Lebron debate where they're about, you know, it's so funny.

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Speaker 1: People love to bring up that Dallas Finals series. Um,

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Speaker 1: and again gave nothing against Lebron. He was bad in

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Speaker 1: the series after game one. Ultimately, people are basically pinning

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Speaker 1: an entire Jordan Lebron debate on four Finals games like

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Speaker 1: in the middle of Lebron's career. Like, seriously, they can't

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Speaker 1: overcome a four game stretch that Lebron had in the

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Speaker 1: NBA Finals when he was like, I don't know, twenty

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Speaker 1: eight years old, nothing else seems to matter. Rob. It's

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Speaker 1: funny in logical races. Oh okay, that is one check

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Speaker 1: in the column and then you go to the next one.

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Speaker 1: Oh what about when Jordans came back from baseball? Oh no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: he wasn't out the old Really, he played well in

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Speaker 1: the seventeen games. He averaged a ton of points, and

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Speaker 1: then he got picked by Donald Royal and Nick Anderson

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00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:14,760
Speaker 1: and three D Dennis Scott and the Orlando Magic took

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Speaker 1: him to the house in the playoffs. Well that doesn't count, Jason.

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00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:19,480
Speaker 1: He was coming up, Oh okay, that doesn't care. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's like that's what we do. We don't do that

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Speaker 1: in m v P races, at least, I don't think

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Speaker 1: not none, no, no. Smart people are gonna say, hey, man,

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Speaker 1: Lebron did lose fourth straight in the first week of February.

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Speaker 1: I don't care what he did after that, you know,

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Speaker 1: like it's a little silly. But NASCAR analyst Brad Doherty

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Speaker 1: coming in hot, it's saying, James Harden, Now I will

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Speaker 1: say this, Rob. I believe it was last week you

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Speaker 1: and I shopping up who's the most important players in

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Speaker 1: the league to their team, and Lebron was one, James

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Speaker 1: Harden was two, Luca was three. By the way, the

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Speaker 1: Steph Curry fans just murdered me on social media for that.

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Speaker 1: I felt bad because, like I'm a Curry guy, and

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Speaker 1: you know, they made a decent point, Like, Okay, take

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Speaker 1: Luca off the Maths, they're bad. Take Curry off the Warriors.

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Speaker 1: I mean they're like worse than the Timberwolves, which which

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Speaker 1: is you know, it's tough to argue against that with

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Speaker 1: a D. But no Lebron. What are the Lakers. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if they're a playoff team, but you know

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Speaker 1: they're probably in the mix for six, seven, eight nine,

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Speaker 1: um hard and off the nets. The nets are still

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Speaker 1: really good. So Warriors fans did have a fair gripe

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Speaker 1: when you remove If you're just looking at who makes

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Speaker 1: teams better, Curry has to be four, if not in

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Speaker 1: the top three with Lebron, Harden, and Luca. Yeah. I

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Speaker 1: don't think that's a very hot take. I mean, the

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Speaker 1: show is called straight fire and you deliver lukewarm take like, well,

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Speaker 1: people were just upset that Curry was left out, you know,

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Speaker 1: and and all these fans are so sensitive, you know,

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00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 1: bunch of sexually Steph Curry just can't take to speak

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Speaker 1: a little truth about his career and people get all upset.

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Speaker 1: You know, here we go, look at you when you

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Speaker 1: when if you guys remember in the preseason, Rob g

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Speaker 1: this this season will be the referendum on Steph Curry.

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Speaker 1: I am sticking by that. I mean, if everyone wants

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Speaker 1: to talk about so, based on what so, based on

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Speaker 1: what you've seen, survey says what survey says. He's a

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Speaker 1: very good player, Like I've always said, he's a he's

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Speaker 1: a great player actually, But to say that he's already

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Speaker 1: the second best or the best point guard in NBA history,

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Speaker 1: He's definitely not. It's just a terrible match. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he he should be based on the current NBA standings

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Speaker 1: and what we've seen in the last few years. He

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Speaker 1: does not have the super team around him. He should

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Speaker 1: be getting compared to Russell Westbrook and Damian Lillard, not

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00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 1: Isaiah Thomas and Magic Johnson. Well, the problem is we

551
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 1: never saw Isaiah without Joe Dumars and the bad boys

552
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 1: and Chuck Daily, the Olympic coach, Like, I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: Steph Curry, by the way, uh, fourth in the league

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Speaker 1: in scoring, shooting four from three from the line. Top

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Speaker 1: looks like he's top uh, top seven, He's ninth in

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Speaker 1: player efficiency rating. Guy's incredible. Like I just it just

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Speaker 1: it's still baffles me. Rob rob g is not a

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Speaker 1: Curry guy. I don't I don't know how we got

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Speaker 1: he's so good that he got a team in the

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Speaker 1: eighth seed. You know, I'm very impressed by what he's doing.

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Speaker 1: You know, considering he's playing with a defensive player of

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Speaker 1: the Year multiply multiple time All Star who at one time,

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Speaker 1: one time I think, called himself the greatest defender in

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Speaker 1: NBA history. He's with a multiple time championship he's averaging

565
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Speaker 1: like seven points a game. Throw me off base here,

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Speaker 1: multiple time championship player and coach at the helm. He's

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Speaker 1: got a twenty point per game score. Teammate and Andrew Wiggins,

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Speaker 1: and he has a uh, from what I've been told,

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Speaker 1: is the best big man to come in the NBA

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Speaker 1: and a couple of seasons and James Wise, nobody says

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Speaker 1: Nobody says that about apparently because Dave Lillard, with three

572
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Speaker 1: starters out of the lineup for most of this past season,

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Speaker 1: is uh, two games up in the lost column. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Little has been tremendous. Um, just because you threw Russell

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Speaker 1: Westbrooks name out there. Somebody posted this on Instagram, and

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm board sitting in the Starbucks, not the line,

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00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:26,960
Speaker 1: but like at a stoplight or whatever, and I'm scrolled

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Speaker 1: scrolling through Instagram and I see, oh Russell Westbrook. Oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh, he was so good in averager triple double

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Speaker 1: and blah blah blah. I looked at that roster. Are

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Speaker 1: you ready for this? Rob g Are you ready for this?

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Speaker 1: Who was on that thunder roster when Russell led the

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Speaker 1: NBA won the m v P, when he led the

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Speaker 1: league in triple doubles average of triple double for the Army,

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Speaker 1: they had Demontis Sabonis, who was an All Star this year.

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Speaker 1: He was a rookie. He was on the roster being

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Speaker 1: held back by Russell Westbrook. They had Victor Oh little depot. Oh, yes, Oladipo.

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00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:08,400
Speaker 1: They got Oladipo. Um, he became an All NBA player

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Speaker 1: after we left Russell Westbrook. And if those two weren't

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Speaker 1: good enough for you. You're gonna love this one. They

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00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:18,280
Speaker 1: had a young player out of Syracuse by the name

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Speaker 1: of Jeremy Grant who is now leading the Detroit Pistons

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Speaker 1: in every statistical category and should have been an All Star.

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Speaker 1: But the Pistons are total garbage. Um, so we're looking

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Speaker 1: at some real talent. I mean, I don't even mentioned

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Speaker 1: Steven Adams. Uh. I can't say Doug big Dermott with

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00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 1: a straight face. But um, that Russell Westbrook team had talent.

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Speaker 1: They got dusted in the first round by James Harden.

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Speaker 1: They were like forty four games. Um, that team with

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Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook had more talent than these Warriors too. Fact,

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00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 1: big old facts, Rob g. So don't give me this

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00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 1: Russell west he is he can't see Steph Curry's galaxy

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00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 1: with the Hubble telescope. That's alright, alright, Well, let's just

604
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 1: just remember where you heard it first. I know that

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00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 1: we have a good friend, mutual friend. Mark Willie hosts

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00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 1: radio out in the Bay Area. Whenever they do, I'm

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00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 1: assuming they're gonna do it during the middle of the

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00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 1: summer when nothing's going on. The biggest Steph Curry hater

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Speaker 1: in media, I would like to be considered for the

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Speaker 1: poll whenever they do that. Why why would you want

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Speaker 1: to be a considered a hater? Because sometimes being a

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00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:27,480
Speaker 1: hater is not really being a hater. It's just the

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Speaker 1: guy who's willing to say what's really going on. Because

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Speaker 1: you know, a lot of guys in the media, like

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00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:35,200
Speaker 1: Jason McIntyre, like the gloss over all the negative and

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Speaker 1: only point out the positive. So when I when I

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Speaker 1: bring a little truth to the facts, you know, I

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Speaker 1: feel like that that should qualify me. Okay, um, listen,

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Speaker 1: I'm not a hater by any stretch. I do have

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Speaker 1: some people that I'm a little lower on than the

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Speaker 1: general Brook, than the unwashed masses. Russell Westbrook, Kyrie Irving. Um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: to a lesser extent that Prescott um. That they're not

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Speaker 1: so much targets is I'm just not a believer, So

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00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 1: you've got to believe. Make me believe, Kyrie Irving, don't

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00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:10,279
Speaker 1: go a wall, Russell Westbrook, make a jump shot, make

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Speaker 1: someone better, like has Russell Westbrook ever made anyone better?

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Speaker 1: Now I'm really rambling, rob Gi. I do want to

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Speaker 1: wrap up with this. Besides the fact that we have

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Speaker 1: a great guest coming up tomorrow. You guys are gonna

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Speaker 1: love her. Um. I just started my showing my kids

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Speaker 1: Friday Night Lights, rob G. Have you seen the full

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Speaker 1: TV show series? Have you seen any of it? Read

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Speaker 1: the book? Do you have cable or are you one

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Speaker 1: of these YouTube TV weirdos? Okay? Um, yes, Spectrum okay,

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Speaker 1: So go to UM, hit the be the Blue button

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Speaker 1: and then type in Friday Nightlights the series and start

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Speaker 1: that ship. Like tonight. The first episode is incredible. UM,

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Speaker 1: My kids are into it so much that we're watching

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Speaker 1: like half an episode a day. And I forgot how

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Speaker 1: good the first season is. It's so free and good. Um,

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Speaker 1: I would say after loss, Friday Night Lights is the

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Speaker 1: second best TV show of my lifetime that I really enjoyed.

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Speaker 1: And that's excluding like Growing Pains and Who's the Boss

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Speaker 1: and Wonder Years, shows that Rob G wasn't even alive

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Speaker 1: when they debuted. Um, but do something for me, folks

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Speaker 1: besides subscribe, rate and review. Just check out the series

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Speaker 1: Friday Night Lights. I know a lot of you have,

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Speaker 1: UM and Rob G, listen, I know you've got a

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Speaker 1: lot going on. You got the kid, you got the wife,

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Speaker 1: you got your new truck. Uh did you get the

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Speaker 1: season past my Disney yet or is that not? But

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Speaker 1: I mean you shouldn't. I mean, Jason, we're talking enough.

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Speaker 1: You should know by now. My TV. I got a

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Speaker 1: night in the living room only watch Disney pall when

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Speaker 1: I watched sports or TV or movies. It's on my

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Speaker 1: little twelve inch iPad. That that's that's the world I'm

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Speaker 1: living in these days. Goodness, Yes, all right, Uh, all right,

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Speaker 1: any parting shots, Rob G do you want to maybe

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Speaker 1: apologize to Steph Curry. Steph Curry is a fantastic player.

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Speaker 1: He's just not an all time great player. That's all.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna in the in the dog days of summer.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna have to do like a top twenty all

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Speaker 1: time list. And I mean, the only decision for me

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Speaker 1: is Curry is he has he cracked the top ten yet?

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Speaker 1: That's really really only question for me. Um I thought

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Speaker 1: Kevin Durant could Um I thought, I mean, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: probably shouldn't even talk about the Durant because I don't

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Speaker 1: want to jinx him like I did when I said

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Speaker 1: he was gonna pass Kobe like a week later he

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Speaker 1: ruptured his achilles. I don't want that to happen again,

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Speaker 1: so I'm gonna hold off on all that hype. But anyways,

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Speaker 1: this has been a lengthy, fun podcast. I hope it

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Speaker 1: made your Wednesday morning even better. We'll talk to you

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Speaker 1: tomorrow