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Speaker 1: Athletics beat writer Law Murray on today's episode. I'm Miles

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Speaker 1: like that voice for you. I also noticed that we

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Speaker 1: we knew I'm out numbered. Let's welcome our guests who

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Speaker 1: Please welcome Law Murray from the Athletic what's going on

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Speaker 1: in Law, Thank you for joining us, Thank you guys

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Speaker 1: for having me. It's it's good to be able to

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Speaker 1: with a couple of idiots. Yeah, Like we tell everybody,

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Speaker 1: this may be the dumbest NBA podcast out there, but

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Speaker 1: it has heart, and I think that's what people cling to,

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Speaker 1: you're not gonna play smart, at least play hard, right right,

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Speaker 1: So law you cover the Clippers, but you're from Philly.

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Speaker 1: The first thing I like to always ask, we have

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Speaker 1: It was even before the professional light. I was watching.

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Speaker 1: on the back to the run Son on the upper floor.

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Speaker 1: Tell yourself, he got that part tonight, He got that

424
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Speaker 1: part tonight, Yeah, because he wasn't. They didn't really get

425
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Speaker 1: him the ball that much at the end of that game.

426
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Speaker 1: Like that was I think everybody's frustration. It felt, yeah,

427
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Speaker 1: and it's felt It's felt that way for a lot

428
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Speaker 1: of his tenure with the Lakers. So yeah, I think

429
00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:57,560
Speaker 1: you're right. Maybe that crystallized things for for everyone a

430
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Speaker 1: little bit. Um Lebron just stay back and make dead jokes.

431
00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:07,200
Speaker 1: Uh yeah exactly. Zion is kind of running the offense again.

432
00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:11,000
Speaker 1: He's looking so good. He's zioning it up. I mean,

433
00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:13,760
Speaker 1: when he's going downhill, it's just like, get out the way.

434
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Speaker 1: Just please clear the children from the building because we

435
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Speaker 1: don't have three points four steels. Two blocks. The other night,

436
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Speaker 1: which is just fun, one of my favorite shop blockers

437
00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:27,800
Speaker 1: to watch get hard guarded by Curry five to shoot.

438
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Speaker 1: He was thinking about he will shoot it the best

439
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Speaker 1: player in the building with thirty one and oh, I

440
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Speaker 1: do want to say the bench and the Pelicans is

441
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Speaker 1: also looking really good, and I'm like, no more, I

442
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Speaker 1: see that. I'm like, man, this it's saying with like

443
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Speaker 1: the like the King's too. I'm like, man, i gotta

444
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Speaker 1: got a bench over there. It's really looking nice, and

445
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Speaker 1: I gotta say it like I'm not the biggest was

446
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Speaker 1: not the biggest Jose Alvarado fan, but he's beginning to

447
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Speaker 1: work on me a little bit. I'm starting to I'm

448
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:05,320
Speaker 1: starting to appreciate him more. And more because I part

449
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Speaker 1: of me was just a little being a little too

450
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Speaker 1: much of a Jose hater in the beginning. That Pelicans

451
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Speaker 1: team is to this year with the Grizzlies words of

452
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:15,240
Speaker 1: last year, a team that came out of the playing tournament,

453
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Speaker 1: got those two playing wins and got some playoff experience,

454
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Speaker 1: and they're building off of that by getting healthier and

455
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Speaker 1: exercising the depth that you guys talked about. I mean, um,

456
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Speaker 1: it's crazy. Who's not playing for them? Like Jackson Hayes

457
00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:30,880
Speaker 1: was a recent lottery pick, He's not playing for him.

458
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Speaker 1: Car Lewis, I know he towards the c O, a

459
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Speaker 1: lottery pick on a rookie contract. He's not playing. Billy

460
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Speaker 1: right on going has dominated euro Beast kids with everybody

461
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Speaker 1: playing a euro basket, He's not playing that team. Is

462
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Speaker 1: that to the guys who are in warm ups from

463
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Speaker 1: tip off the garbage time? Right? Yeah? And it's like

464
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Speaker 1: I was saying in our preseason predictions, I figured that

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Speaker 1: Jose Alvarado was probably gonna put up a thirty eight

466
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Speaker 1: point game at some point this season, and oh yeah, yeah,

467
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Speaker 1: I said, Trey Murphy the third he might be better

468
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:03,160
Speaker 1: than Herb Jones I remember saying, I said, watch out,

469
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 1: he might give herb Jones a run for his money.

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Speaker 1: Check the episode. Check it, don't don't go back and

471
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Speaker 1: listen to the one that we're going to release in

472
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Speaker 1: a little bit. That one I don't know who knows

473
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Speaker 1: where they uploaded in that old episode. Listened to the

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Speaker 1: first one where we're absolutely correct on everything. And then

475
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Speaker 1: Andrew Nemhard with thirteen eight rebounds as laws you kind

476
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Speaker 1: of mentioned, just putting it together. And this is somebody

477
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Speaker 1: who was drafted I think thirty feet this this season,

478
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Speaker 1: rookie first pick of the second round. Yeah, yeah, I mean,

479
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Speaker 1: this is one of my favorite things to talk about,

480
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Speaker 1: is nobody knows anything in the n b A and yeah,

481
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Speaker 1: just immediately showing people that they don't know anything and

482
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Speaker 1: also immediately showing people like we we talked about this

483
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Speaker 1: when we started started seeing the summer league games with

484
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Speaker 1: what's the number two picks name the Big seven two? Yeah,

485
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Speaker 1: Chad Home when chat was like balling out in the

486
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Speaker 1: Summer League, I was like, what were they were they

487
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Speaker 1: telling him not to play good in like for Gonzaga

488
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Speaker 1: and n C Double A tournament because like this is

489
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Speaker 1: this is not the same player and them hard too.

490
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Speaker 1: I mean he was good, but they had a lot

491
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Speaker 1: of talent turns out on that team last season. Right. Oh,

492
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Speaker 1: you want to hear lyric Rick Carlisle on it. I've

493
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Speaker 1: been saying. I've been saying that, you know, down the line,

494
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Speaker 1: you know when who's like does their redraft of them

495
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Speaker 1: as the twenty two red draft, he'd be a Toxics

496
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Speaker 1: team pick come elevating that, you know, top ten. I

497
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Speaker 1: mean he's he really is a special player. And uh,

498
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Speaker 1: you know are our basketball people Kevin Pritchard and Jeffy

499
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Speaker 1: Cannon and Kelly and Ted. I mean they just hit

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Speaker 1: it out of the park with him. I mean, guys

501
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:11,719
Speaker 1: got amazing poise. He's strong, he's old school but new school.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's special. Yeah, you heard it from I Like,

503
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 1: he's looking for that hoops type redraft too. He knows that.

504
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Speaker 1: He's like, you know when that's coming. I think it

505
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Speaker 1: usually comes around uh December to January. You know, they

506
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Speaker 1: do a couple but like the redraft three point oh

507
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Speaker 1: is really when they lock it in and I think

508
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Speaker 1: they're you're going to see him in the top eight

509
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Speaker 1: maybe even um. I like when a coach reveals he's

510
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 1: a fan. He's just like out there googling just like us. Yeah. Yeah, Hey.

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Speaker 1: This is the same coach that told everybody before the

512
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Speaker 1: news even broke that Tristan Thompson was going to the

513
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Speaker 1: Chicago Bulls all right, just for like a week or two.

514
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Speaker 1: And he's like, so, just so you guys know, we're

515
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Speaker 1: letting Tristan go to Chicago, like specifically Chicago. Yeah, Woad

516
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Speaker 1: just like man Carlisle won't stop hitting me up. Man.

517
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Speaker 1: He said he wants to do car bombs. I was like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, that doesn't sound good, but yeah, I

519
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Speaker 1: mean we've talked before Anthony Simons, even though they're struggling

520
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Speaker 1: a little bit, but uh yeah, Shay Gil just Alexander

521
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Speaker 1: is taking it to the next level. I mean super

522
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Speaker 1: producer Jabari was asking if he's like in the most

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Speaker 1: Improved Player conversation. That conversation is kind of loaded, yes,

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Speaker 1: season with Haliburton market in Simons and a Nobi Bowl

525
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Speaker 1: bull but it also Austome reeves of court Um and

526
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Speaker 1: it's also sort of a like it's a narrative driven award,

527
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Speaker 1: you know, because it's just like whoever gets the narrative

528
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Speaker 1: momentum behind them, but he's probably the leader just because

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Speaker 1: it does usually go to like the best player who

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Speaker 1: is part of the conversation for like jobs was last season, right,

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Speaker 1: so maybe it'll be him? Are we is he? Is

532
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Speaker 1: it safe to say he is, like fully just one

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Speaker 1: of the top guards right now? Absolutely we can just

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Speaker 1: lockout ourselves on the back, okay. And then with that,

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Speaker 1: my question is after we I didn't realize how close

536
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Speaker 1: him and Chris Paul were like over them one season

537
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 1: they overlapped, and part of me, like, we always talked

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Speaker 1: about building your game on other players games, and I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I'm wondering how much of that, like, you know, what

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00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:33,040
Speaker 1: we're seeing in his form right now is also informed

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Speaker 1: by like, you know, having enough like as people described

542
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Speaker 1: an apprenticeship with one of the top guards in the NBA,

543
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Speaker 1: like in history. Is there something there to that or

544
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 1: just kind of like he's it just took some time

545
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 1: and the situation became what it is now for him

546
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 1: to excel that. Dude is fresh though, like Shay hasn't

547
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:56,720
Speaker 1: gotten to complete the previous two seasons um and he's

548
00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 1: he was already so young. He was a one in

549
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 1: on in Kentucky like the year with the with the Clippers,

550
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:06,360
Speaker 1: Like he got to be around a bunch of guys

551
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 1: a different who had a lot of different skill sets.

552
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Speaker 1: I mean, on one hand, you got your Patrick Beverley

553
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Speaker 1: that you're playing with growing up on a playoff team.

554
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Speaker 1: But on the other hand, you got Lou Williams, who

555
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Speaker 1: when you look at Shad's game, he's one of the

556
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 1: most complete scores in the league. People talk about three

557
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 1: level scores and not talking about she is a four

558
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:28,320
Speaker 1: level score because the free throw line is a big

559
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Speaker 1: part of Shay's output. Like this, dude s gils just

560
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:34,720
Speaker 1: Alexander outscores entire teams by himself from the free throw

561
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Speaker 1: line and Lou Williams has a small guard. You know,

562
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Speaker 1: how do Lou Williams get to be a three times

563
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:42,440
Speaker 1: six man a year? Like he was getting to the

564
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Speaker 1: line right, And so you had that, you had Chris Paul,

565
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Speaker 1: you had everybody else that's been with the Thunder for

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Speaker 1: those half years or whatever. Before Sam Presci tells him

567
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Speaker 1: we got some draft business to do, right, Curious to

568
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 1: see if that happens this year. But that's another conversation

569
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Speaker 1: with Ja. They wouldn't do with him, would that Hey, look,

570
00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 1: I've seen some things and Sam Presty has been aggressive. Man,

571
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:16,520
Speaker 1: So like they're playing well now, but if it's all

572
00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:20,080
Speaker 1: Star break, they're gonna be like shave you've done? You think, man,

573
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 1: I promise you just the last year this. But yeah,

574
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 1: sha is four level score at the rim Ramp game.

575
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 1: When he wants to shoot at three, he'll shoot three.

576
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:32,720
Speaker 1: But he gets in the line better than anyone. And

577
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 1: no one talks about free throws because free throws can

578
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 1: be annoying and not great for TV or the highlights

579
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:40,719
Speaker 1: of a show like this. But he's killing teams from

580
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Speaker 1: the free throw line. Actually, we are planning to do

581
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Speaker 1: an all free throw episode where we just kind of

582
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Speaker 1: narrate some of our favorite free throw shooters in the league.

583
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Speaker 1: And just like and from the end of taking a

584
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 1: warm up dribble, another warm up dribble, take a deep breath.

585
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Speaker 1: I'm also talk you talking about college programs that are

586
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 1: good at hiding talent. But um Also, Shakil's Alexander's voice

587
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:05,280
Speaker 1: is not what I was expecting. I don't know if

588
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 1: I just hadn't like, yeah, man, he has the voice of, like,

589
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:13,279
Speaker 1: you know, someone who's a seven footer, which is which

590
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,759
Speaker 1: is cool. I like it. He has the voice of

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Speaker 1: somebody who looks like designer. Right, Um, all right, let's

592
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Speaker 1: take a quick break and we'll we'll come back. We

593
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Speaker 1: obviously have to do the fastest segment, so we'll be

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Speaker 1: right back and we're back, be back. We kept the

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Speaker 1: designer thing. Sorry, we had to. We had to just

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Speaker 1: go in through you know when. This show is also

597
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Speaker 1: obviously acknowledges the importance of hip hop, so we're not

598
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Speaker 1: going to waste our time there. But that double XL

599
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:59,479
Speaker 1: freshman class nothing to play with. But it's time now

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Speaker 1: to get into the real meat of the show. It's

601
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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter and it's time for the rapid fire

602
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:09,880
Speaker 1: round of questioning. Now, Oh law, I hope you're ready

603
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:14,520
Speaker 1: because this is the fastest segment in sports podcasting. We're

604
00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 1: going to ask you some questions. What are we going

605
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Speaker 1: to do with truly testing the rule of law today?

606
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 1: We're gonna hit you with a question. Just respond, don't think,

607
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:27,600
Speaker 1: don't you know, have an overly long answer, because it's

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00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:30,040
Speaker 1: all about keeping the pace up. And if Jack or

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00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:32,399
Speaker 1: I begin to trail off, it is really on you

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Speaker 1: to keep this segment moving and we will get a

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00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:37,719
Speaker 1: ready to slow it down? Okay, good good, Law, I know,

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Speaker 1: I know you're quick with it. I will get furious,

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Speaker 1: so uh a little bit. Here we go. Time for

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Speaker 1: the rapid fire the questions Victor, when Victor, Okay, we're ready?

615
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Speaker 1: Should I go first? You go first? I'd like to

616
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:06,360
Speaker 1: take this one Miles if you don't mind. Would you

617
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Speaker 1: rather have your favorite team or the team you're covering

618
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:14,239
Speaker 1: win a championship this year or have Victor weimbang Yama

619
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Speaker 1: for the next ten years championship because I ain't going.

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00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:23,319
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I'll be running ten years championship, all right,

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to win now. Yeah, and I guess we

622
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 1: can just watch wembang Yama wherever he is and yeah

623
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Speaker 1: right exactly, Like do you have your Mets jersey from

624
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 1: the French League? Get I would rather keep running it

625
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,680
Speaker 1: back and half the Sixers just bottom out and then

626
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 1: get wembang Yama. Personally, you want Sixers tank for Wemby,

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00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 1: tank for Wemby. Let's do it, blow it up, blow

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00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:50,799
Speaker 1: it up. Hey, you know me, baby, Let's blow it

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Speaker 1: up to blow it up to electric. Okay, next question, Law,

630
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Speaker 1: you have the chance to win ten thousand dollars to

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Speaker 1: make a layup with each hand, or you could win

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Speaker 1: twenty five dollars to make five of five free throws,

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Speaker 1: or a hundred thousand to make at least four of

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Speaker 1: five from deep. Now. I know you said famously in

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Speaker 1: your Twitter bio you've gone undrafted for I think now

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Speaker 1: fourteen years. But which challenge are you taking? I'm man,

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Speaker 1: I'm getting the money, getting the money. I'm not worrying

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00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:26,400
Speaker 1: about the basketball spinning off my hand. Wrong. You know,

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00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:32,440
Speaker 1: I'll make these left handed layouts. Okay. And is the

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00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 1: answer the same if you're doing it in an empty

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Speaker 1: gym or in a packed Staples Center or crypto whatever,

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00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:46,279
Speaker 1: it's the same. The people don't affect that game. Wow, wow,

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00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 1: ice water in his veins. It has been confirmed here.

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Speaker 1: But lah, man, I gotta tell you, mane, we really

645
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:57,120
Speaker 1: gotta keep this going. So you know that's kind of

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00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:00,560
Speaker 1: keep it up there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, up, all right, now,

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00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 1: that's that's right, that's true. Miles. Did you answer that question?

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00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:06,800
Speaker 1: Did you say which one you would do? No? I

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Speaker 1: haven't answered that one. In an arena. The layoups, man,

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Speaker 1: the layups for me are nerve racking in an arena,

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Speaker 1: you know, then the oh yeah, because then they're gonna

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Speaker 1: be like, you know, if you miss a layoup, at

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Speaker 1: least you miss one and you're you're out. You know,

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Speaker 1: would you rather air ball the free throw an arena? Up? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I guess I did laps. I'm baby, Um, what is

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Speaker 1: a new rule law that you'd like to see implemented

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00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 1: or altered effective immediately? When you joined us here in studio,

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00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:49,440
Speaker 1: you did declare I am the law. Let's judge Dredd.

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00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 1: So this is your chance to write a new rule

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Speaker 1: you'd like to see implemented or altered effective immediately. It

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00:38:56,280 --> 00:39:00,320
Speaker 1: can be dumb, it can be fun. We've had people

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Speaker 1: say the bucket from Rock and Jack um, and then

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00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 1: we've also had people do something about defensive three seconds. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Lastly was no goaltending like FIBA. Oh yeah, which is fun.

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Speaker 1: So I'm not a huge hand of this. But if

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Speaker 1: we're gonna go with a new role the big three

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Speaker 1: four point spot from what or whatever it is, I

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Speaker 1: put that down. Oh. I don't think the court needs

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Speaker 1: to be Jim geometrically changed or anything like that. Some

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Speaker 1: some cool writers have suggested that I'm not really cool

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00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 1: with that, but like, put that four point spot down

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Speaker 1: and I think you gets some more interest. That being said,

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Speaker 1: I'm cool with no rule changes sports. Fine. Wow, Like

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Speaker 1: you're like, don't So you're saying, like the spot where

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Speaker 1: it's like a four point bucket. Yes, So if you

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Speaker 1: like a four point spot in three different spots, so

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Speaker 1: like top and and then each part like a four

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Speaker 1: point spot basically a logo shot. Yes, but I think

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Speaker 1: that home team gets to determine where the spots are,

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Speaker 1: so that that that's that's that's your rule change, not mine. Okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, I was just trying to would be fun too.

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Speaker 1: It randomly appears at times. Oh okay, the four point

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Speaker 1: spot just showed up. Okay, now if they could probably

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Speaker 1: get back in the game, you know what I mean? Like,

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00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 1: I just like I want to see more frantic chaos.

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Speaker 1: But Miles, that was not laws answer though, So that's true.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why you're trying to pull words in

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Speaker 1: his mouth. Wow, man, we gotta get to the next question,

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Speaker 1: you know. So that's That's what I'm gonna say up

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Speaker 1: top man. So let me ask you this next one.

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Speaker 1: You can create your ultimate Big three, Okay, using players

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Speaker 1: from any era. Okay, who do you pick for your

693
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:51,360
Speaker 1: ultimate all time big three? Uh? Definitely Andre three thousand,

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Speaker 1: Big Boy and somebody from the Goody Mob. You know

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying, players ball, But it's only royal family

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Speaker 1: I've ever Yeah, the Dungeon family family. Okay, I'll take that.

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Speaker 1: That is the correct answer. Uh. As we do every week,

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Speaker 1: we have to ask you. Jacker Miles, uh, Jack of Miles,

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Speaker 1: I don't really drink at all. So um okay, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so that's a that's a neutral. That's that's that's that's

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Speaker 1: that's a neutral. You'll take the ore. Okay, Okay, good

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00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:38,239
Speaker 1: to know. Man like y'all gotta come as a as

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Speaker 1: a as as a package. I'll take that too. Wow,

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Speaker 1: Jack can gotta judges ruling on that. Does that count

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Speaker 1: for a win? I see that I haven't won win yet.

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00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:48,759
Speaker 1: That's a win for men, that's a win for you.

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00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:51,719
Speaker 1: That's a win for you. Okay. Yeah, maybe that's all

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Speaker 1: Jabari is demanding. You gotta pick. We need says, we

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00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:58,919
Speaker 1: need toxicity in this. Uh so you gotta pick. No,

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Speaker 1: don't force him. Law knows, Law makes his decisions. Remember,

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00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:04,359
Speaker 1: we couldn't even bully him into doing nonsensical rule chains.

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00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:06,480
Speaker 1: We were telling you, guys, what I will pick the

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00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:10,000
Speaker 1: next time I do I do this show. Okay, hey,

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00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:12,200
Speaker 1: guess what you're it's the next time you've done the show.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back, Law. Great to happen the next episode call

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Speaker 1: me dr drink. This is the next episode episode. Hold up, wait, okay,

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Speaker 1: never mind, Law, Thank you so much for joining us. Yeah,

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00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:29,920
Speaker 1: awesome to have you. Fantastic having you. Where can people

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00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:33,120
Speaker 1: find you and read you and and and all that

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Speaker 1: and keep up with you? Yeah, I mean I say

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Speaker 1: this U. Shout out to the Athletic Uh. They put

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Speaker 1: me on and and they've supported me and everybody else,

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Speaker 1: so um at right there. Uh, shout out to everybody

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Speaker 1: who subs I'm on the social media's law Murray the

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Speaker 1: new that's l A W MU R R A y

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Speaker 1: h E. And you bring these networks united. So that's

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Speaker 1: what we try and do over here. And that's about it.

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Speaker 1: That's yeah. And also don't forget to follow us on

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Speaker 1: Twitter at mad boost these b double O S T

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Speaker 1: I E s uh. And also shout out to the listeners.

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Speaker 1: This week we definitely asked for you know, people's early

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Speaker 1: m v P favorites. Uh And this week at Samurai

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Speaker 1: the Seventh said, all caps Anthony Davis. Okay, I feel that.

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Speaker 1: At Jake b Ball, Elevin said Luca uh and then

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Speaker 1: Low Underscore Jeff said, never been an Anthony Davis believer,

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Speaker 1: but if he continues playing like this and the Lakers

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Speaker 1: keep winning, there would be an m VPR, which I

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Speaker 1: think answers the superducer Jabari pick, We're Anthony Davis. Its crazy.

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Speaker 1: Just sounds like just sounds like that's what the people

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Speaker 1: are feeling. Man. You know, I don't get in the

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Speaker 1: way that people are spoken. Thank you, thank you. You

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Speaker 1: can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore, O'Brian, oh wow,

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Speaker 1: you can find me at Miles of Gray if you

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00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:51,040
Speaker 1: feel so inclined. Well that is going to do it

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Speaker 1: for us. On this week's edition of Miles and Jack

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Speaker 1: Gott mad Man, We'll see you next week and we'll

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Speaker 1: be talking even more basketball. Se then bye bye, m

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Speaker 1: MHM