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Speaker 3: Our number three Here on the Herd.

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Speaker 4: It's the power hour, final hour of the week, glorious

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Speaker 4: Flag Football event.

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Speaker 3: Oh, everybody's fired up about it.

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Speaker 5: It's me Jason.

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Speaker 3: McIntyre, infa Colin Cowherd.

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Speaker 5: Joined by Rachel Nichols. Rachel, I know you're pumped for

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Speaker 5: the Flag Football app this weekend.

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Speaker 3: It's gonna be great.

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Speaker 4: You happen to be friends with one of the gentlemen

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Speaker 4: putting this whole thing together, and let's welcome in Michael Rubin,

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Speaker 4: founder and CEO of Fanatics. Rachel has known him for

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Speaker 4: a long time.

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Speaker 3: What do you think about a long time? I remember Rachel.

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Speaker 6: Ten years ago coming up with the NBA together and

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Speaker 6: good to be with you guys today.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks Michael, and you know Rachel for a while,

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Speaker 4: she'll be at the event. Rachel get us started.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I mean it's so funny.

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Speaker 7: Flag football is just exploded, and I want to remind

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Speaker 7: people this is going to be in the Olympics at

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Speaker 7: LA twenty eight. So this is a preview of what

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Speaker 7: you're seeing in the Olympic Games. And I'm so psyched

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Speaker 7: for it. Michael, how did you even think of doing this?

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Speaker 7: How did this originate?

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Speaker 6: You know, the riginal idea came from Tom.

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Speaker 8: He called me about a year ago and said, brub

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Speaker 8: I got a great idea. I want to do the

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Speaker 8: biggest flag football game ever. Let's do it in Saudi Arabia.

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Speaker 8: It would be just a great way to mark a flag,

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Speaker 8: be a great way to you know, kind of market

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Speaker 8: global growth es.

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Speaker 6: That's what sets you.

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Speaker 8: Obviously, what's happened in the Middle East right now that

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Speaker 6: But this game is just such a big opportunity.

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Speaker 8: As you said, flag is growing incredibly quickly, so much

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Speaker 8: enthusiasm around it. And what's so interesting about what we're doing.

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Speaker 8: We changed the entire thing in the last couple of

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Speaker 6: And then when we remove the.

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Speaker 8: Game from Saudi to La, we realized at the same

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Speaker 8: time we've got an opportunity to actually really put flag

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Speaker 8: on the map of the Bigness's ways. And people said, look,

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Speaker 8: the USA Flag football team, they're the best flag football

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Speaker 8: team in the world. They've won the last five championships.

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Speaker 6: Big question, could the NFL.

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Speaker 8: Based teams beat the USA Flag champions And so we

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Speaker 8: format round robin, two NFL based teams and the USA

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Speaker 8: Flag Football champions and this is going to be insane.

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Speaker 8: I mean, if you asked the sportsbook, Canact sportsbook said

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Speaker 6: As soon as we.

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Speaker 8: Yes, because they're just they're fast.

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Speaker 6: They know how to pull flags.

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Speaker 8: And I'm sitting here right now in my suite at

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Speaker 6: Nobody really cares. They're not locked in. They're just there

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Speaker 8: Practice yesterday was like a very serious practice. There was

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Speaker 8: no playing around. Everyone's locked in. Look, the USA Flag

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Speaker 6: The NFL squads are.

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Speaker 8: Here to say we're the best NFL players in the world.

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Speaker 8: We're gonna kick your ass. So it's gonna be a

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Speaker 4: What do you think fans can expect on the field?

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Speaker 4: Like it sounds like it's going to be an incredibly

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Speaker 8: There's going to be no fun. This is here to

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Speaker 8: be hard to stop either team. I was the NFL

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Speaker 6: They won the last five championships.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and Michael, I want to talk a little bit

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Speaker 7: and flag is so popular. When you first flowed flag football,

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Speaker 7: I love it.

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Speaker 8: No. When Tom brought me the idea, you're going said, look,

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Speaker 8: I have this big idea, but we need to with Fanatics,

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Speaker 6: You know business.

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Speaker 8: We have called Fanatics Studio's apartment to kind of produce

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Speaker 8: this together with Tom. I think the media reaction from

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Speaker 6: Do this without the NFL stool support.

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Speaker 8: I mean, Robercraft showed up here yesterday, Roger Goodels is

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Speaker 6: They've helped us every bit of the way.

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Speaker 8: I mean, the reality is we've never produced a you know,

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Speaker 8: It would not have been possible without NFL support. But

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Speaker 8: getting the best NFL stars in the world, getting the

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Speaker 8: and I think for the flag for the USA flag

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Speaker 8: There's going to be tens of millions of people that

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Speaker 6: On a map in a way it's never been for And.

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Speaker 8: It was interesting for me. I just asked Jandon Daniels

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Speaker 8: He just showed me a picture of himself when he

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Speaker 6: I've been playing flag my whole life.

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Speaker 8: I love flag, So wow, I think these two things

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Speaker 6: He just again, you showed me these pictures.

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Speaker 8: But these guys are all ready to compete for who's

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Speaker 8: this match in this tournament.

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Speaker 4: We saw some good video footage from the draft on Wednesday.

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Speaker 4: You were there, obviously, how intense are we talking? Obviously

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Speaker 4: the guys are happy to hang out, but it looked

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Speaker 6: I think there's a lot more intensity.

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Speaker 8: I think when you think about a traditional, you know,

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Speaker 8: I think it's it's, you know, the best players that

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Speaker 6: But the games aren't competitive enough. I think by changing.

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Speaker 8: The format and adding the five time champion USA Flag team,

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Speaker 8: who are great flag players, now that all guys all

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Speaker 8: I mean they get an extra hundred thousand dollars each

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Speaker 8: I think, as competitive as anything.

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Speaker 7: And the level of players you guys have recruited, can

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Speaker 7: you just throw throw out your names here, throw about

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Speaker 7: the names of current NFL players. We know Tom Brady

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Speaker 7: obviously retired, but the high level we're going to see

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Speaker 8: First, yeah, Tom reminds me every day that if he

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Speaker 8: Then he's his co captain is jalb Hurtz. You've got

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Speaker 8: And you've got so many other incredible players from DeVante's

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Speaker 8: Stefan Diggs. I mean, there's just DeVante Adams. I mean,

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Speaker 8: So you know, this started as like a friendly match,

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Speaker 8: and now this is like everyone's pride is on the line.

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Speaker 6: Nobody doesn't want to take the championship. Hope.

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Speaker 4: Michael Rubin, founder and CEO of Fanatics. The game is tomorrow,

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Speaker 4: four pm Eastern on Fox. Fans can get tickets at

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Speaker 4: fanatics flag Football Classic dot com.

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Speaker 3: Michael, thanks a lot, enjoy the game tomorrow. Man, Thanks Michael.

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Speaker 8: I've been asking everybody. We need you guys on record. Rachel,

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Speaker 8: who do you got?

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Speaker 7: Oh man, I'm going to go with one of I

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Speaker 7: haven't studied your rosters, but I think whoever Tom Brady

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Speaker 7: I think he's because I have been around him and

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Speaker 7: when he wants something, he wants something. I mean, it's

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Speaker 7: just that's how it is.

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Speaker 9: Okay, So you.

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Speaker 6: Got Brady Hurts, Who do you got?

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Speaker 5: I mean, I listen, I don't bet against Brady either.

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Speaker 4: He comes the studio. He's the nicest guy. I gotta

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Speaker 4: rock with you.

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Speaker 6: You're just balking racer. You got great here and not

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Speaker 6: just you got to make your pick and be accountable.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I guess I'll roll with Jayden Daniels.

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Speaker 6: Okay, so neither one of you guys have the USA

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Speaker 8: I like that, so confident in the NFL guys, I'm

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Speaker 8: gonna go tell the guys that the USA Flag teams

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Speaker 8: right next door to man, we tell you guys are

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Speaker 8: betting guests and you think that no shot.

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Speaker 6: We need everyone buried exactly.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, please go tell them that, Michael, I love it.

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Speaker 5: I'll double down on Daniels based on that for sure.

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Speaker 2: Thanks a lot of.

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Speaker 3: Mideay, thank you, thanks having me, guys.

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Speaker 5: Oh ladies and gentlemen, it was glorious.

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Speaker 4: We gotta talk about Luka Doncic, Folks, I mean Luka

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Speaker 4: Doncic last night was incredible. Sixty piece sixty against the

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Speaker 5: They're eight straight win for the Lakers.

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Speaker 3: Listen.

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Speaker 5: If that sixty ball wasn't enough to convince you that

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Speaker 4: In NBA parlance, last night for the Lakers was supposed

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Speaker 5: Okay, they play Wednesday in Houston. Game ends. They got

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Speaker 4: Apparently they land around four am, get to the hotel

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Speaker 5: As you heard here.

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Speaker 4: Yesterday on the show. When you hear that, you're like, Okay,

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Speaker 4: let's assume Luca's gonna sit Lebron, I mean the old

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Speaker 5: James, it was the first one. I'm in.

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Speaker 5: That's leadership, my friends.

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Speaker 4: That doesn't sound like somebody who's pouting and whining about

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Speaker 5: That sounds like leadership.

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Speaker 4: And Lebron's saying he's gonna play. Instantly, everyone fell in line.

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Speaker 4: It's Luca, It's Reeves. And then the real surprise happened,

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Speaker 4: Luca dodge it. On the second night of a back

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Speaker 5: Last night.

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Speaker 4: The Lakers stunned the Heat and listen, Miami's not a

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Speaker 4: They have a player named bam Adebayo who scored eighty

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Speaker 10: When he said he was playing, I was like, I

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Speaker 10: So West signed up to play, and so did Luca,

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Speaker 10: But the second half, especially that third quarter, we play

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Speaker 5: The stretch and I took over the game.

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Speaker 4: You see the celebration and you can just tell the

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Speaker 4: The entire rest of the league has won. Karl Malone,

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Speaker 4: I could not have guessed Karllone. That's how dominant Lebron

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Speaker 4: Luca twenty seven years old, he's like an old twenty seven.

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Speaker 4: I mean, he only has three dunks this year. I

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Speaker 4: is wine. Listen, Luca is shredding everybody. He's torching the league,

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Speaker 3: Just take it.

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Speaker 2: You were wrong.

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Speaker 3: Eat it.

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Speaker 4: He had sixty points, and you could argue Luca's sixty

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Speaker 5: They needed it.

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Speaker 4: They had to come back in the fourth quarter to

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Speaker 5: I know you think, hey, Jay, save that for hot

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Speaker 4: Last week eighty three points, there was some gimmicks involved. Hey,

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Speaker 5: Obviously, I'm not knocking that.

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Speaker 4: The path to eighty three not as pure as Luca's

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Speaker 5: He's on fire. Forty points per.

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Speaker 5: That they're just joking.

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Speaker 4: Again, not taking away from BAMS eighty three. Just putting

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Speaker 5: Everybody's gonna be at the beach.

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Speaker 4: Just keep one eye on Luca and the Lakers, who

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Speaker 3: Everybody seems to be under.

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Speaker 4: The consensus that Aj Debonsa probably the number one pick.

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Speaker 4: It was Darren Peterson for a minute, and now it's

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Speaker 4: Boozer's lurking, Darius Acuff is in the mix, Caleb Wilson

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Speaker 5: So yesterday, the BYU.

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Speaker 4: I mean Aj Debonsa was insane. If you've seen the

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Speaker 4: He's doing whatever the hell he wants. You cannot stop

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Speaker 3: I see like.

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Speaker 4: You know, some people say they see a little quicker

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Speaker 4: Paul Pierce. Bottom line is Aj Debonsa is going to

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Speaker 3: I just had a I just had a question.

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Speaker 4: Last year they made the Sweet sixteen guys, good run

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Speaker 5: This year they get Aj Debonsa.

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Speaker 4: Michigan's doing it. You know, Duke Byu interestingly has Debonsa

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Speaker 4: He brought the major pub right there, all over newspapers online,

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Speaker 5: Not ever? And they got high profile games and again

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Speaker 3: It's over.

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Speaker 5: We don't get any more Debonsa, And to me, that

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Speaker 4: Here's Sean Miller, the Texas coach, on trying to stop

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Speaker 11: We understood that he has the ability to score like

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Speaker 11: guys were able to play all the way to the end.

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Speaker 6: You know, we knew he was going to score.

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Speaker 11: We just wanted to make sure that we did a

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Speaker 11: great job rebounding and that we did as good of

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Speaker 11: a job as we can guarding the rest of the group.

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Speaker 11: And I think that's really why we were able to win.

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Speaker 4: And that's a great point rebounding. They grabbed sixteen offensive rebounds.

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Speaker 4: Some Texas center nobody had ever heard of, had nine

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Speaker 4: offensive boards. B what you couldn't get rebounds, They couldn't

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Speaker 4: make shots. Look at the non AJ DEBONSA players thirty one,

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Speaker 4: I think the number was three of five, fifteen from deep.

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Speaker 4: They didn't have a well rounded roster. They had a superstar,

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Speaker 4: that's it. And Texas, of course had a better roster.

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Speaker 4: I had, you know, BYU and my bracket. So I

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Speaker 4: lost this one, but I watched a bonsa. I think

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Speaker 4: it's very clear because when you look at the NCAA tournament.

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Speaker 5: Today, a lot of great games coming up.

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Speaker 4: I just wonder, are teams going to start saying, let's

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Speaker 4: spread the wealth around, let's retain guys for more than

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Speaker 4: one year. It was nice having AJ. He's definitely going

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Speaker 4: to the league. Let's just not wish the Sacramento Kings

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Speaker 4: upon aj de Bonsa aj debonsa superstar off to the NBA.

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Speaker 4: We are off to herd Line News.

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Speaker 2: No, no, turn on the news. This is the herd Line.

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Speaker 3: News, Jason.

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Speaker 7: NBA owners will vote next week on expansion, specifically expanding

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Speaker 7: to Seattle and Las Vegas.

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Speaker 3: The buy in to own one.

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Speaker 7: Of these teams is supposed to be around seven to

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Speaker 7: ten billion dollar dollars.

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Speaker 3: And this money does not go to players.

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Speaker 7: They don't revenue share when expansion teams come in. So

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Speaker 7: what that will mean is a cool five hundred million

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Speaker 7: dollars in every current NBA owner's pocket. And that, my friend,

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Speaker 7: by the way, is the answer to why is the

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Speaker 7: NBA expanding? But I had to tell you, I look

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Speaker 7: at this story, I wish some of the richest people

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Speaker 7: in the USA were a little less concerned with getting

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Speaker 7: five hundred million dollars richer, because I don't think expansion

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Speaker 7: is the right move for the NBA.

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Speaker 3: I would much rather see relocation.

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Speaker 7: I think Seattle and Las Vegas they should have NBA teams.

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Speaker 7: They're projected to be in the top ten in profitability.

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Speaker 7: But you have other teams and other markets that frankly

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Speaker 7: aren't working, and you're going to water down the talent pool,

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Speaker 7: don't I don't know, And not just that, but you know, look,

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Speaker 7: the way teams are tanking this year is obviously historic, right.

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Speaker 7: There was a stat last week that combined the ten

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Speaker 7: teams they're considered tanking were on a forty game losing streak.

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Speaker 7: And I'm sure it's only increased since then. You know,

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Speaker 7: expansion teams off an expansion draft get players. Other teams

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Speaker 7: don't care about losing, right by definition, they don't protect them.

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Speaker 4: Maybe let me push back. You say some teams should

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Speaker 4: be relocated. Yes, Is that because the fans just don't

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Speaker 4: care or the owners aren't putting in them the required

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Speaker 4: money or what.

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Speaker 3: It's a combination of factor.

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Speaker 7: So Memphis has some of the most die hard fans

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Speaker 7: in the league, right, but there's not that many of them.

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Speaker 7: They are dead last in attendance this season. New Orleans

502
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Speaker 7: has a very outdated arena. Their attendance is not great.

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Speaker 7: The arena deal is expiring in the next year or two.

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Speaker 7: Same thing in Memphis. They both have soon to be

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Speaker 7: expiring arena deals. I love both of those cities. I

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Speaker 7: am not trying to wrest those teams from those fans.

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Speaker 7: But the bottom line is there are not enough of

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Speaker 7: fans in those cities to be supporting NBA teams at

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Speaker 7: the level that they could in Seattle and lne Vegas.

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Speaker 7: And remember there's revenue sharing in the NBA.

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Speaker 4: Yeah so wait, so, I mean it's weird that you

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Speaker 4: mention Memphis and New Orleans. They got Ja Morant and

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Speaker 4: Zion and we're supposed to be on the uptick. Both

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Speaker 4: of them look to be well more Jomran and Memphis.

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Speaker 4: I mean they had Baine Jackson and Morant. I think

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Speaker 4: they were second round and it looked like the arrow

517
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Speaker 4: was putting up Jogo's sideways. Franchise falls Zion. You know,

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Speaker 4: I don't want to say eight his way out of

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Speaker 4: the league. He had some other off quarters. He's been

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Speaker 4: well this year, he has, and he's been healthy.

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Speaker 5: But this is like year seven, six or so whatever.

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Speaker 3: It is interesting.

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Speaker 5: I didn't think about stripping teams. I like more expanding.

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Speaker 4: But I think to go back to your billionaire point, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: we need them the rich to get richer, right, that's

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Speaker 4: what this country needs.

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Speaker 7: I mean, I it's sort of like how much how

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Speaker 7: much does everyone need? How much money do they all need?

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Speaker 3: They all need the health of the league.

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Speaker 7: The health of the league, in my opinion, would be

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Speaker 7: better off with relocation than expansion. And if that was

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Speaker 7: really the chief concern, I don't think they be expanding.

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Speaker 7: I think they'd be relocating because again, these cities, Memphis

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Speaker 7: and New Orleans, they have some incredibly loyal, diehard fans,

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Speaker 7: but they're not enough of them.

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Speaker 3: These are cities with lower populations.

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Speaker 7: It's not anyone's fault that they don't have as many

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Speaker 7: people to come to games. And it's not the diehard fans'

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Speaker 7: fault that there aren't that many more casual fans come

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Speaker 7: into games.

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Speaker 3: But the truth is the truth.

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Speaker 7: There's numbers on attendance, there's numbers on how well the

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Speaker 7: arena does, how many suitees it has, what the condition

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Speaker 7: of the arenas are, what their concessions are, whether fans

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Speaker 7: even want to be there.

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Speaker 4: I just wonder what the approach would be when you

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Speaker 4: go to Memphis and say, hey, we're moving you guys

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Speaker 4: to Seattle.

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Speaker 7: Well, I know that I don't know what the answer

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Speaker 7: would be because I haven't quizzed those owners, but I

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Speaker 7: know they would make a lot more money if they

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Speaker 7: went to Seattle than Memphis. So if we're saying money

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Speaker 7: is a factor here, money's always a factor to guys, yes, right.

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Speaker 3: So I don't know.

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Speaker 7: I just think that I think that there should have

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Speaker 7: been a little bit more consideration on doing it a

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Speaker 7: different way. But it's not how people get rich ja

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Speaker 7: And so there we go. The interesting for Anthony Edwards

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Speaker 7: in Minnesota, this was really fun. He's, of course a

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Speaker 7: huge star in his own right, but he was asked

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Speaker 7: to make a perfect NBA player using traits from other guys.

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Speaker 3: So take a listen to what he said.

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Speaker 5: We're gonna build your perfect player. Handles, Kyrie, Kyrie shooting, still, defense, defense,

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Speaker 5: Jade mcdames.

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Speaker 6: I q i q i q.

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Speaker 9: Uh.

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Speaker 2: I gotta go with Chris, Paul Duncan Dunky, I gotta

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Speaker 2: go with Hey.

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Speaker 5: I think they know the answer. No, I'm gonna go

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Speaker 5: with uh Zach Levine?

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Speaker 8: All right?

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Speaker 5: So is Paul he's not even in the league anymore. Wow,

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Speaker 5: what do you think of no Lebron?

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Speaker 3: That's what you?

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Speaker 8: All right?

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Speaker 3: So, which which attributes that were attributes on the screen?

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Speaker 5: Do we have a screen grab?

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Speaker 7: I can tell you Handles Kyrie shooting, Steph Curry defense,

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Speaker 7: he said, James Daniels great dunking.

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Speaker 5: Yes, defense, Wendy.

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Speaker 7: I would have gone defense Wenby too. He will be

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Speaker 7: the defensive player of the Year this year.

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Speaker 5: Dunking, I mean ants in the mix for dunking. He's one.

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Speaker 7: And you heard the person asking the question, like you know,

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Speaker 7: and the kids and the and the audience were you

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Speaker 7: know you you you, I would say I would go

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Speaker 7: i Q.

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Speaker 4: Luca passing is not an attribute, I guess because then

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Speaker 4: you get in there.

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Speaker 3: I would go iq lebron lebron.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but then Luca is not building the perfect player

592
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Speaker 4: when he might be the perfect once.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean with him, with him, you'd have to does.

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Speaker 4: He contest Steph Curry handles, Oh over Kyrie?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Steph does the warm up drill.

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Speaker 2: I would go to the handles.

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Speaker 5: Those are amazing handles.

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Speaker 3: And in shooting from the corner is not a handle? No, no, no,

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Speaker 3: do you know what the handle is?

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Speaker 5: UI's handle is ridiculous. I mean, Kyrie's is really good.

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Speaker 4: But I'll take Curr's and then I can get Luca

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Speaker 4: at shooting Lebron i Q.

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Speaker 5: So that's a better overall player.

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Speaker 3: I see.

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Speaker 5: Okay.

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Speaker 7: Well look, I mean, I certainly Korey has great handles,

607
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Speaker 7: but I think Kyrie he's existential. I mean, it's just

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Speaker 7: it's crazy, extra terrestrial handles.

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Speaker 4: Here we go against him, Hawkes step back.

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Speaker 3: That's not handily that that was not.

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Speaker 5: That's a hand Look at the left, he's got the.

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Speaker 2: Great left pull out.

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Speaker 3: I'm not saying he's bad at it.

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Speaker 7: He's one of the best in the league. He's just,

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Speaker 7: in my opinion, not the best in the league.

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Speaker 5: I like his list.

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Speaker 7: You know, it's a shame he can't be on it

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Speaker 7: according to the question, because I would put him in

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Speaker 7: there for don game.

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Speaker 3: Is this Kyrie footage?

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Speaker 5: Well, look at you guys in your bag.

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Speaker 3: Look at that control room.

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Speaker 7: I'm sorry when Alan Iverson says Kyrie has the best

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Speaker 7: handles of all time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you got to listen to that.

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Speaker 5: I don't actually don't have to listen.

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Speaker 3: Yes you do. Alan Emerson is a god. Don't say different.

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Speaker 3: I'm a huge fan.

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Speaker 5: Not to go two sideways.

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Speaker 4: I was a young guy in Virginia and he had

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Speaker 4: the bowling alley in yes, and there was no.

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Speaker 5: Like video footage.

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Speaker 4: There was no YouTube at the time. You just would

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Speaker 4: have to read newspaper articles. You're like iverson hit a

635
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Speaker 4: lady with a chair who was pregnant and all that.

636
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Speaker 4: The rumors were crazy. He was like a legendary football

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Speaker 4: and basketball player in uh. I think they called it

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Speaker 4: Newport Blues Snipia.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Absolutely, and of course, just to follow that up once

641
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Speaker 7: the truth came out, it was nothing like this.

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Speaker 3: It was super report.

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Speaker 5: He still did a little time in jail.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, but then he was let out because yes, exactly,

645
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Speaker 7: so don't believe everything you read.

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Speaker 5: No, no, for sure.

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Speaker 7: Kevin Durant fifty points away from tying the fifth spot

648
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Speaker 7: in the NBA's all time scoring list.

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Speaker 3: That means he will pass Michael Jeffrey Jordan.

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Speaker 7: Durant was asked recently about passing the legend, and he said, quote,

651
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Speaker 7: Jordan has always been my inspiration. He scared defenders every night,

652
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Speaker 7: and I wanted to put that same kind of fear

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Speaker 7: in the defender who's guarding me. He also said that

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Speaker 7: Michael Jordan's game inspired him to play it all basketball.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know, do you.

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Speaker 7: Think that Kad can play what Jordan played in the

657
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Speaker 7: late thirties. Lebron's playing in his early forties. Do you

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Speaker 7: think Katie's going to keep playing that line, that he'll

659
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Speaker 7: keep moving up the scoring list?

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Speaker 4: So I was just looking at Jordan with the Wizards

661
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Speaker 4: at thirty eight, and Kat's going to be better with

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Speaker 4: the Rockets Jordan was with the Wizards. Yeah, it's so

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Speaker 4: weird looking back on the Jordan career as your inspiration.

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Speaker 4: A guy who quit the NBA twice to come back

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Speaker 4: a third time. I don't know what's inspiring about that.

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Speaker 4: Obviously winning and dominating, you know, after Magic and Larry

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Speaker 4: and Isaiah all left, that's wonderful. I think it was

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Speaker 4: depleted as you used, water down with expansion, watered down nineties,

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Speaker 4: not taking anything away from Jordan, but it just is

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Speaker 4: interesting to me. I thought KAD would gravitate more toward

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Speaker 4: a DMB player or just a legendary shooter. But obviously

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Speaker 4: MJ the shoes, the commercials.

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Speaker 3: I hate to break it down.

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Speaker 7: When Kevin Durant was growing up, there was no no

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Speaker 7: Washington Wizards player.

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Speaker 5: Jeff Malone was keep Madela.

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Speaker 3: How old do you think kesh Fan is? Please?

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Speaker 7: I do think it's interesting, and this puts the scoring

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Speaker 7: list in perspective that KAD for a while was seen

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Speaker 7: as someone who could potentially pass Lebron. If anyone was

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Speaker 7: going to pass Lebron, it would be Kevin Durant. But

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Speaker 7: the idea when people were talking about that was that

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Speaker 7: Lebron would probably retire at thirty eight thirty nine.

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Speaker 3: He's obviously not done that. Just Lebron's total right.

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Speaker 7: Now, if he stopped playing basketball forever, Kevin would have

686
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Speaker 7: to play six more seasons, scoring at a high rate

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Speaker 7: and not missing any games. Yeah, So clearly he's not

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Speaker 7: going to get it now. The next person that people

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Speaker 7: say maybe could break it, although obviously it's very hard

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Speaker 7: to break is luk Up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I mean that KD had the one eight.

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Speaker 4: Well, he's had multiple injuries, Yeah, but he met the

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Speaker 4: full season after the Warriors that hurt.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 4: I don't think he's gotten back to Golden State KD

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Speaker 4: since the injury now, I mean he's been closed.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: But also look, when Jordan played, scoring was nowhere near

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Speaker 7: as inflated as it is now.

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Speaker 3: So a lot of this is era specific too.

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Speaker 7: I mean, frankly, when Kareem played, they were scoring a

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Speaker 7: much higher rate than the NBA players do even now.

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Speaker 7: So it's always a little bit where you played and

705
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Speaker 7: when you played and your injury luck, but obviously a

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Speaker 7: huge accomplishment. You passed Michael Jordan on the all time

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Speaker 7: scoring list.

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Speaker 5: That's a big impressive Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you know, I so missed those ninety four

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Speaker 4: eighty nine Bulls Jazz Finals games. Go watch it on YouTube, guys,

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Speaker 4: you'll be a sleep in minutes.

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Speaker 7: I loved what I will tell you. I cover Michael Jordan.

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Speaker 7: He was astounding to watch play. I'm sorry, I know

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Speaker 7: they know, I.

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Speaker 3: Know your point, but like, come on, they are good in.

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Speaker 5: The moment, but given what we're seeing now, it's just

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Speaker 5: did you ever.

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Speaker 3: Watch them play live?

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Speaker 5: I did what you mean on TV? Or in there?

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Speaker 3: Reading?

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Speaker 4: Right? Mike andersonal, I was not rich enough to go

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Speaker 4: to games we would go to, like Washington Wizards games

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Speaker 4: against bad teams.

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Speaker 5: Okay, well bullets teams, yeah yeah right. Sel with the.

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Speaker 2: News, Well that's the news, and thanks for stopping by

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Speaker 2: The Herd Line news all right.

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Speaker 4: Tomorrow's headlines today talking NCA tournament and a certain sixty

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Speaker 4: point score.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Herd weekdays

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Speaker 2: and neon eastern non am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio

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Speaker 2: FS one and the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 7: Are you missing football? Have you looked at a calendar

733
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Speaker 7: and realized it's sill one hundred and twenty something games

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Speaker 7: until the NFL comes back.

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Speaker 3: I have your answer.

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Speaker 7: The United Football League returns with a new season of

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Speaker 7: real pro football. Don't miss UFL kickoff weekend March.

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Speaker 3: Twenty seven through twenty ninth on Fox and ESPN. Should

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Speaker 3: be fun.

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Speaker 4: Indeed, all right, it's been a banger of a week,

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Speaker 4: the NCAA tournaments underway. We're gonna do Tomorrow's headlines today

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Speaker 4: with some NCAA tournament and a certain NBA player absolutely cooking.

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Speaker 5: So let's get it going.

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Speaker 7: Rachel Nichols, all right, we got to start with the tournament.

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Speaker 7: Of course, you've been screaming at phones and scores and stuff.

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Speaker 5: No, I don't operate that.

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Speaker 7: Sot's let's talk a little bit about potential under it.

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Speaker 7: Doug Tomorrow's headline today. I feel like that's like in

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Speaker 7: a world Right back, guy, that's gonna be me in

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Speaker 7: this segment. What would the headline be for the NCAA

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Speaker 7: tournament's next big upset?

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Speaker 3: We've already seen a couple.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I did not, I mean I actually did.

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Speaker 2: You're right.

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Speaker 5: I called high Point yesterday and this one.

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Speaker 4: If I nailed today, would be a big shocker because

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Speaker 4: they're big underdogs. The headline will be up in smoke.

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Speaker 4: Hofstra pound for pound better than Alabama. Sorry, Alabama had

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Speaker 4: to get the digs in smoke pound for pound. If

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Speaker 4: you've been following the news, Alabama's second best player busted

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Speaker 4: a large amount of marijuana and he will not play today.

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Speaker 4: I like Hostra to pull the upset outright.

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Speaker 3: Listen.

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Speaker 4: Obviously Alabama is the better team. There's no doubt they're

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Speaker 4: favored by They were favored by double digits. The line

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Speaker 4: keeps coming down because you know what, Alabama is a

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Speaker 4: three point shooting team, and three point variants is going

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Speaker 4: to be the key to this tournament. We saw it

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Speaker 4: yesterday with Wisconsin high Point, and we're going to see

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Speaker 4: it throughout the tournament. If you make your threes, boom,

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Speaker 4: you're hot. If you don't, there's a chance you could

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Speaker 4: go out. And I think Alabama is in deep trouble.

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Speaker 4: Give me the Hotstra pride in an upset.

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Speaker 3: By way a pound of marijuana, Yeah, not just a

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Speaker 3: little bit.

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Speaker 5: Well, no, I don't want to crush again.

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Speaker 7: All right, let's get to the big game at the

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Speaker 7: Big Dance Tomorrow's headlines Today?

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Speaker 3: What will the headline be for the NCAA Tournament champion day?

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Speaker 5: Happen to be playing now? They're up I think seventy

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Speaker 5: four at half time.

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Speaker 4: I think they've been one of the best teams in

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Speaker 4: the country all season, not Duke, not Michigan. The headline

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Speaker 4: for the NCAA champion will be Wildcats Pajamas. Arizona puts

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Speaker 4: rest of the field to sleep. Yes, IM going with

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Speaker 4: Arizona and listen. Their final four matchup against Michigan would

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Speaker 4: be a classic. Michigan's excellent. I just think this Alabama

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Speaker 4: team man unbelievable. We had Miles Simon on earlier this week.

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Speaker 4: They have four starters who are probably gonna be first

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Speaker 4: round picks, and their center probably goes second round.

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Speaker 5: They're loaded.

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Speaker 4: They got a great backcourt, great defensive backcourt. Bradley and

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Speaker 4: Burry's the.

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Speaker 5: B B boys.

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Speaker 4: I mean, they're gonna face a Cuff likely in the

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Speaker 4: sweet sixteen. That will be a tough matchup, as he

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Speaker 4: looks extraordinary. I like their role players, just everything about Arizona.

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Speaker 4: The big question Rachel will be their head coach Tommy Lloyd,

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Speaker 4: who has had, shall we say, some missteps in March.

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Speaker 5: I like that, missteps in March.

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Speaker 4: It happens to the best of them. Hubert Davis, John

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Speaker 4: Shire of Duke. It's tough to win in March to

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Speaker 4: one game setting. This is an NBA Playoffs where you

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Speaker 4: got like seven games to make adjustments and watch tape

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Speaker 4: and change things up. You got to do stuff on

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Speaker 4: the fly. And there is some reluctance regarding Lloyd. But

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna take an Arizona to cut down there.

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Speaker 3: I think it's what twenty five years since they won

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Speaker 3: title something? Yeah, yeah, I don't know. By the way,

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Speaker 3: Kat's pajamas. I see what you did there? Yeah, pretty good.

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Speaker 3: I like that all right, going from a great team

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Speaker 3: to a great player.

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Speaker 7: Tomorrow's Headlines Today, Jason Today, Tomorrow's headlines Today.

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Speaker 3: What do you got? All right?

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Speaker 5: So, if we're going with.

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Speaker 3: Standing like who's going to be the most eating for.

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Speaker 4: MOP I have Arizona winning it. So it has to

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Speaker 4: come from the Arizona team. The problem is there's so

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Speaker 4: much talent. I love CoA Pete. I think he's probably

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Speaker 4: like that next batch of guys to get drafted at

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Speaker 4: the top. But I'm going with a surprise here. The

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Speaker 4: mop of the final four. The headline will be basketball

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Speaker 4: has been Betty.

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Speaker 2: Betty's good to me.

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Speaker 4: I'm going with Braden Burry's, the awesome freshman from Arizona.

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Speaker 5: Dude, this kid is so clutch.

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Speaker 4: I had friend for Sila all my podcasts before the tournament,

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Speaker 4: and he's been covering college forever. He's seen all the

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Speaker 4: best players. Burry's reminds him of SGA. He gets to

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Speaker 4: his mid range, super quick, catlike separation on the jumper.

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Speaker 4: Actually a pretty good three point shooter, only thirty six percent,

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Speaker 4: But it has something to do with their way. Their

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Speaker 4: offense is structured. They're heavy, let's go inside and work out.

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Speaker 4: But Burry's, who struggled for a minute in the Big

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Speaker 4: Twelve tournament and then in the second half, took over

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Speaker 4: in the championship game. The kid is a special talent,

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Speaker 4: five star recruit, can do it all. You see that

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Speaker 4: handle there crossover into the three.

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Speaker 2: I love it game.

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Speaker 4: Bradley, his backcourt mate, was the Big twelve Player of

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Speaker 4: the Year, and like Pete the big center, it is

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Speaker 4: an awesome team Arizona's loaded.

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Speaker 7: All right, you've been talking all day about the Lakers

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Speaker 7: being contenders, So let's go to the NBA. The playoffs

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Speaker 7: start in a month. Are you ready to put your

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Speaker 7: money where your mouth is? Tomorrow's headlines today?

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Speaker 5: Who have you got?

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Speaker 3: Were the NBA champion of this year? Twenty twenty six?

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Speaker 4: I know, people, it chasing your two reactionary. It's only

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00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:32,160
Speaker 4: been two weeks. I mean the Knicks have been great

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Speaker 4: old season. Okay, see he's had a lock on the

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Speaker 4: number one seed forever.

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Speaker 3: Nick great all season.

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Speaker 5: But well, you're right, not not great. They've been very

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Speaker 5: good up and down. You have Mike Brown new coach Detroit.

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Speaker 5: It's been great.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, of course.

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Speaker 4: Cool.

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Speaker 2: It was a surprise. The headline four.

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Speaker 12: The BA champion will be diuretic. Lakers flow flow right

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00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:58,400
Speaker 12: into finals. I can't believe we got away with that.

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Speaker 12: Tish is the man. This is his last day, and

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Speaker 12: that's how they let him let that headline slide. That

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Speaker 12: will never appear on the front of the Jeback journal.

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Speaker 12: I just think Reddick's been incredible.

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Speaker 4: It's probably too late to push for Coach of the Year,

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Speaker 4: but he's somehow got DeAndre Ayden the delusional center to

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Speaker 4: buy into being a role player.

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Speaker 5: Two weeks ago, they want me to be Clint Cappella.

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Speaker 4: Now after a Reddick come to Jesus moment with him, Oh,

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Speaker 4: I guess I could be Clin Capella. That works, that's

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00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 4: what they want, and he's got Lebron to buy in.

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Speaker 4: I think that's probably the biggest story of the second half.

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Speaker 4: It was supposed to be honest Macro in the NBA,

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Speaker 4: but now it's been Lebron. Yeah, I mean again. A

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00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 4: month ago it was well, it's over for Lebron. He

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Speaker 4: doesn't want to be a role player. He's not fitting

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Speaker 4: in with Reeves and Luca, And so quickly the narrative

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00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 4: has changed, and all of a sudden, Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 4: Lebron's buying in. You've got Reeves as the wingman, Luca

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Speaker 4: as the superstar, the role players. Jake la Ravia looks

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Speaker 4: good off the bench. I mean Luke Kinnard coming off

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Speaker 4: the back and he didn't do anything last night. But

884
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Speaker 4: it's the Lakers are in a really good place. And

885
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:05,239
Speaker 4: I know I'm getting no overboard, but some of this

886
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:06,960
Speaker 4: is how hot you are heading into the place.

887
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 3: We talked about it.

888
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 7: Look at the Dallas Mavericks a couple of years ago. Yeah,

889
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:12,279
Speaker 7: I had a great final month and comes to the

890
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 7: NBA Finals.

891
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 3: New York Giants in the NFL. They weren't the best team.

892
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:16,560
Speaker 2: I covered those teams.

893
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:17,839
Speaker 3: I was in New York covering those teams.

894
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:19,919
Speaker 5: I mean they were. You get hot at the right time,

895
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 5: anything's possible.

896
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:22,400
Speaker 3: And you catch something on your head. You can win

897
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:23,440
Speaker 3: a super Bowl on the helmet.

898
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:25,520
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean Luca maybe flinging stuff over his head.

899
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:29,240
Speaker 5: Who knows? And Diar Redick may win headline of the year.

900
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 3: My lord, you know, I think Reddick will get some

901
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 3: votes for Coach of the Year. I don't think.

902
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 7: Yeah, he's been sign Yeah, there we go. All right,

903
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:39,719
Speaker 7: weird last one. You ready, We're gonna stay on the

904
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:42,279
Speaker 7: hard wood. A lot of contenders who believe they're the

905
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:47,319
Speaker 7: NBA's best. So tell me give me tomorrow, Jason, give

906
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:51,800
Speaker 7: me tomorrow's headline today. Who will the headline be for

907
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:53,120
Speaker 7: the NBA MVP?

908
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 3: A lot of people.

909
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:56,399
Speaker 7: They've got a lot of guys this year, some guys years.

910
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:58,359
Speaker 7: Guys don't want to say it, right, you No, you're right.

911
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:00,040
Speaker 7: You got four guys this year who have said, I

912
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 7: want to be the I think I should be the MVP.

913
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:05,960
Speaker 5: So Rachel, I love to sing in my car? Why sing?

914
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:07,680
Speaker 3: Why are you putting that into my head? Why do

915
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:08,160
Speaker 3: I have to do?

916
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 5: Here?

917
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:08,800
Speaker 3: We go?

918
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 5: I like to sing in the car. I like to

919
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:11,240
Speaker 5: sing in the shower.

920
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:16,399
Speaker 4: The headline for NBA MVP well be how Luca could

921
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:19,279
Speaker 4: one guy be make the finals.

922
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 5: And win MVP?

923
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:23,879
Speaker 4: Howd I do Luca Johnson's Hey, that is an outstanding

924
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:28,520
Speaker 4: picture of Luca. Yeah, I'm going overboard make the finals.

925
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:30,920
Speaker 4: He's gonna win MVP. How can you not love what

926
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:32,480
Speaker 4: he's done here? In the last couple weeks, he has

927
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:35,759
Speaker 4: been extraordinary forget Player of the Month. I mean, the

928
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:37,799
Speaker 4: guy is just unstoppable right now.

929
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:38,600
Speaker 5: He is in the zone.

930
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 4: One hundred points in the last two days, last two games,

931
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:45,120
Speaker 4: he's averaging thirty nine points per game on back to backs.

932
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:48,359
Speaker 4: The guy is on another planet right now. I feel

933
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:50,359
Speaker 4: like he's shutting the haters up. And we know he's

934
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:52,680
Speaker 4: gone through some stuff off the court recently, and it's

935
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:55,160
Speaker 4: almost like a burden's been lifted now that that story's

936
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:58,040
Speaker 4: out there, and he has been cooking since it came out.

937
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:00,799
Speaker 5: Obviously, everybody rooting for Lucas seems like a good guy.

938
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:04,160
Speaker 4: The tide has shifted, right, It went from always a

939
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 4: whining guy who's getting technical.

940
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:08,279
Speaker 7: It's a dumb narrative to begin it just didn't make

941
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:10,520
Speaker 7: any sense. And mean, look, he does complain too much,

942
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:12,320
Speaker 7: and he does get too many technicals. And I believe

943
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 7: he has won away from the one game suspension, that

944
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:16,920
Speaker 7: he's a real problem. But to say that he is

945
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 7: washed or passed it at twenty seven is ridiculous.

946
00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:21,520
Speaker 5: But he can't dunk Rachel. I mean, he only has

947
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:22,359
Speaker 5: three dunks this year.

948
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:23,680
Speaker 7: I mean, what are we going to do any when

949
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:26,799
Speaker 7: he was twenty two, that's two whole points. Think about

950
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:29,440
Speaker 7: how much more he could score the two whole points.

951
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:32,240
Speaker 7: All right, that's very impressive prognosticating.

952
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:35,359
Speaker 4: I'm told now we have sound on Luca after going

953
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:36,400
Speaker 4: off for sixty last time.

954
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:37,480
Speaker 5: Let's let's see what he had to say.

955
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:40,440
Speaker 3: I imagine you got your room at about five in

956
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:40,880
Speaker 3: the morning.

957
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:41,759
Speaker 2: How'd you do it?

958
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:42,799
Speaker 6: Oh?

959
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:45,759
Speaker 2: No, I was tired. I was tired. But you know

960
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:46,759
Speaker 2: that shows the team.

961
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:50,800
Speaker 9: We kind of played bad in the first half Couis shuggle,

962
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:54,560
Speaker 9: but we came back, you know, talks a lot about

963
00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:57,399
Speaker 9: the team. He says a lot, so great win. It's

964
00:41:57,520 --> 00:42:00,839
Speaker 9: very impressive. I know a lot of people didn't get

965
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:03,239
Speaker 9: a lot of sleep yesterday. And we come here, you know,

966
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:05,440
Speaker 9: we we'll fight to the end and win the game.

967
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:06,040
Speaker 2: That says a lot.

968
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:08,719
Speaker 9: Like I said, Uh, I'm just in to craw Away

969
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 9: and we gotta keep going.

970
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:12,759
Speaker 5: Looks like a guy who's been through a lot. He

971
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:13,719
Speaker 5: looks exhausted.

972
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:16,480
Speaker 7: Look, we talked, we talked this week about eighty two

973
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 7: games and is that too many? And of course again

974
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 7: the owners will never give back money, so whatever. But

975
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:23,880
Speaker 7: the toll, this is real and it's impressive what they did.

976
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:25,920
Speaker 7: But the toll it takes on these players' bodies. They

977
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:28,640
Speaker 7: often do not get into these cities until three four

978
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:31,239
Speaker 7: in the morning and then go play a competitive basketoketball game.

979
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 3: This is really remarkable what he did.

980
00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:35,359
Speaker 4: And you got these clowns on the internet screen. Oh well,

981
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:39,600
Speaker 4: they're flying first class. Who cares, Rachel. I'm excited for

982
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:41,879
Speaker 4: our next vacation. When I get off a long flight

983
00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:44,400
Speaker 4: three four or five hours, I don't want to do anything.

984
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:46,719
Speaker 3: But if he's been up since the morning and it's

985
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:47,719
Speaker 3: now four am.

986
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:49,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know they say, hey, go get go to

987
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:52,320
Speaker 4: the gym, sweated out all that. No way, I'm not

988
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:54,239
Speaker 4: doing anything. I want to lie down on the beach,

989
00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:57,080
Speaker 4: on the bed, go somewhere. I don't want to like

990
00:42:57,160 --> 00:43:00,360
Speaker 4: play a basketball game. And it's just extra ordinary. I

991
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:02,640
Speaker 4: think the players deserve a little bit more credit.

992
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:06,120
Speaker 3: It was a fun week. Yeah, every day.

993
00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:07,719
Speaker 5: Thankful for that.

994
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 3: I think we're good luck. That's happened every time we

995
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:11,240
Speaker 3: were pretty much together.

996
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:13,960
Speaker 4: We didn't get any trouble. No executive showing up on

997
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:16,960
Speaker 4: the set to oh, did something happen on that.

998
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:19,239
Speaker 3: No, I'm just saying, you don't know. You're not done yet.

999
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:24,200
Speaker 4: You're right, and listen, this is a tough week. I

1000
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:25,799
Speaker 4: had to play in two championship games.

1001
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:26,440
Speaker 3: You got Oh my.

1002
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:30,040
Speaker 7: Lord, okay, you're officially cut off from talking about your

1003
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:34,040
Speaker 7: basketball off the I sang on the air moments ago.

1004
00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:36,400
Speaker 7: By the way, you really had to. I already had

1005
00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 7: to picture you singing in your car. Now I have

1006
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 7: to picture you singing in the shower.

1007
00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 2: That doesn't do that.

1008
00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:41,480
Speaker 5: Every guy does that.

1009
00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:44,520
Speaker 3: No one needs it, Jason, No one more singing.

1010
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:47,800
Speaker 5: Everybody, have a great weekend. Watch some flag football tomorrow.

1011
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:48,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like a fun one.