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Speaker 2: It's me Jason McIntyre, Straight bowyer for Tuesday, March the

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Speaker 2: twenty fourth, Folks. The winning streak is over. Lakers fall

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Speaker 2: to Detroit. Yes, the Caid cuttingham less Detroit Pistons one

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Speaker 2: thirteen to one ten. Good game, good ending. At least

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Speaker 2: talk about that. I saw this new Travis Kelce contract

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Speaker 2: got a record breaking deal, which is fine. Another NBA topic,

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Speaker 2: and then, of course I'm just so geeking out on

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Speaker 2: the college basketball Sweet sixteen coaching cycles moving. Remember yesterday

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Speaker 2: I said the Utah State coach man, that guy, he's

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Speaker 2: gonna definitely get a new boom. He's the new Cincinnati

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Speaker 2: Bearcat's head coach. I mean, it's crazy if you do

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Speaker 2: and you're identified so much quicker than you used to it.

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Speaker 2: It's like, oh, it used to be, Oh, you put

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Speaker 2: It was almost like, well I don't want them, not

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Speaker 2: apples to apples, But it was almost like the situation

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Speaker 2: in corporate America where there was just old guys who

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Speaker 2: had these plumb positions and they never moved on. But

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Speaker 2: old guys who used to be CEOs is the cycle

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Speaker 2: has now been sped up. You have to deliver or

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Speaker 2: you're gone. They're not giving you many many years now

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Speaker 2: to sit around. The competition is fierce and now in

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Speaker 2: the transfer portal nil era, like you got to level up.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm on Mark Pope watch right now at Kentucky.

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Speaker 2: I don't think it's fair, but I mean, he's barely

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Speaker 1: The moving boxes.

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Speaker 2: Has he been there two years and they're trying to

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Speaker 2: like there's only a handful, like Izzo's been there forever.

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Speaker 2: But look at the coach at Michigan, Dusty May Arizona,

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Speaker 2: He hasn't been there forever. Remember he was kind of

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Speaker 2: even think he's been there ten years at Yukon. But

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Speaker 2: it's just crazy how quick it's happening now, which is great.

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Speaker 2: Give the new guys a shot. I think I'll do

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Speaker 2: more on the Sweet sixteen here later this week. It

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Speaker 2: is interesting. I looked at the top twenty five in

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Speaker 2: the first AP poll of the season. Preseason. Okay, here

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Speaker 2: They made the Sweet sixteen, Houston was two. Obviously, Florida

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Speaker 2: was preseason three. They did not make it. For Yukon five,

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Speaker 2: BYU did not make the Sweet sixteen, but they had

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Speaker 2: make the Sweet sixteen. But after that, Arizona, Arkansas, Alabama,

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Speaker 2: Like I remember the Loyola Chicago team that went to

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Speaker 2: Like Utah State put up a fight against Arizona. I

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Speaker 2: That's what I want. Don't don't you want that? The

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Speaker 2: I mean, obviously we're gonna start turning the page to

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Speaker 2: Kelcey three years, fifty four million. Wait, what he's isn't he.

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Speaker 2: lot of people were chalking up, well, you know, Jay Mack, Hey,

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Speaker 2: It's not a big deal. Interesting. So Tatum was six

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Speaker 2: that a bad loss Timberwolves going into Boston winning.

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Speaker 2: We've all seen him. Now, we've seen him a duke.

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Speaker 2: You scrutinize his game. Nobody was doing that with Jokich.

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Speaker 2: any rate. Lakers have one more game against the Pacers,

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Speaker 2: Do you see this? No, kad, He's eleven of twenty nine,

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I don't love the idea that Luca took

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Speaker 2: Don't I love JJ Reddick. I don't know how I

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Speaker 2: feel that he called the final play and put Maxi

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Speaker 2: Who's gonna be wide open? Obviously Maxi Kleeber is gonna

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Speaker 2: We'll wrap up with to somehow I've become like the

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Speaker 2: Charles Barkley hater and it sucks because growing up my

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Speaker 2: you guys know, my favorite player was Magic Johnson and

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Speaker 2: of rebound. He was mired in Philadelphia. They couldn't win anything,

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Speaker 2: but man did he put up numbers. And in all honesty,

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Speaker 2: I was a young guy and I liked stupid stuff like, oh,

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Speaker 2: that's so cool. You know you're a young idiot. I

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Speaker 2: I love Barkley. I didn't care that he forced his

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Speaker 1: I didn't care.

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Speaker 2: Who care? I mean, it's not like there was twenty

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Speaker 2: I liked Barkley as an analyst on inside the NBA.

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Speaker 2: he started bashing Golden State. It was like Curry and

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Speaker 2: Twenty sixteen, I moved to the West Coast, and then

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Speaker 2: It's tough to stay up till like eleven thirty and

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Speaker 2: watch a Golden State Warriors game out here. It's like

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Speaker 1: Know, So.

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Speaker 2: I didn't like that he was consistently bashing them soft

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Speaker 2: social media got to him and he just started becoming

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Speaker 2: players suck. Nobody tries load management, Like, what are you

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Speaker 2: And then Barkley went on an interview with Dan Patrick

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Speaker 2: thirty some odd years ago, Charles Barkley told the Sons,

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Speaker 2: And it's not just that he's doing halftime interviews during

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Speaker 1: I know the cool thing to do.

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Speaker 2: Now thanks all these politicians is oh, yeah, you could

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Speaker 2: But does Barkley think he can do that? I mean,

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Speaker 2: Nothing makes sense, and I can't wait for him, and

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Speaker 2: he might have tackled it too, this NBA expansion talk,

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Speaker 2: because I saw Tracy McGrady, my guy T MAC. After

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Speaker 2: what we don't have enough good players. Oh what you're

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Speaker 2: saying was back in the nineties when we expanded. It

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Speaker 2: didn't make sense because that was when we expanded Magic

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Speaker 2: Lee's Larry Lee's. We get all this expansion and plumbers

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Speaker 2: are playing for the Miami Heat the first couple of years,

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Speaker 2: and the Charlotte team. Oh and Vancouver that disaster. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's when we didn't have enough talent. That must mean

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Speaker 2: what Tmas talking about right off duty electricians, you know

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Speaker 2: that kind of thing. Now basketball is a global sport,

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Speaker 2: my man. Thanks to the Dream Team putting basketball in

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Speaker 2: the map all over the world. Basketball is the biggest

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Speaker 2: sport in the world not named soccer. Right, So the

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Speaker 2: last what six NBA MVPs have been international. They keep

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Speaker 2: coming over here. International players are having success. They're now

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Speaker 2: going to Division I schools. Go look at the roster

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Speaker 2: for Arizona, Go look at the roster for Illinois Euros everywhere.

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Speaker 2: The sport is global. The talent pool is immensely It's

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Speaker 2: as deep as the Mariana trench. I hope I said that, right,

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Speaker 2: It's never been this deep before. Of course, the league

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Speaker 2: can sustain two more teams. Now, how you get there

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Speaker 2: with hey do we I think I saw something like

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Speaker 2: every team protects like eight players and then everyone goes

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Speaker 2: into a pool. I don't there's there's a lot to

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Speaker 2: be sorted. It's not happening tomorrow, but it's like, of

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Speaker 2: course there's enough talent globally for the NBA we're talking about.

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Speaker 2: It's a ridiculous take. And even if you look at

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Speaker 2: the league now, yes, some of the old the superstars

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Speaker 2: are old Currie Durant Lebron, but by and large the

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Speaker 2: league is a lot of young superstars. And yes, obviously

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Speaker 2: you've got you know, your Schoot Henderson's and G League

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Speaker 2: guys who come in here and don't know how to play.

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Speaker 2: I'm just telling you that phase. It feels like it's

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Speaker 2: kind of short of end, kind of sort of the

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five NBA draft. If you want to look

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Speaker 2: at the players from that and how they're doing, I mean, folks,

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Speaker 2: Cooper Flag amazing, Dylan Harper clearly belongs. VJ. Edgecombe I

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Speaker 2: think scored like thirty nine in his first game. kN

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Speaker 2: K Nipple's gonna win Rookie of the Year eighth Bailey.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's been a bit of a struggle, but

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Speaker 2: he's coming along in Utah. Trey Johnson looks like a

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Speaker 2: keeper in Washington. Jeremiah Fears is a player in New Orleans.

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Speaker 2: Let's see Cedric Coward who's playing. I think he's in Memphis.

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Speaker 2: He's playing really good. Derek Queen looks promising, like the

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Speaker 2: league is gonna be fine. These guys know how to play,

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Speaker 2: and the timing with this twenty twenty six draft is incredible.

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Speaker 2: College basketball ratings, by the way, did you guys see

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Speaker 2: this the ratings for the first round with the largest ever,

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Speaker 2: Like there's so much talent. I just tamax my guy.

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Speaker 2: But I completely disagree. The NBA expansion is going to

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Speaker 2: be great. Obviously, there will be hiccups and growing pains

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Speaker 2: because those teams have to get really, really excellent players.

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Speaker 2: Are They're gonna be like Vancouver and Miami and those

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Speaker 2: teams were back in the day. Of course, it took

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Speaker 2: a few years, but you know, they figured it out eventually.

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Speaker 2: I mean Charlotte got LJ in Mourning. They had a

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Speaker 2: couple players initially, but again, go look at the records, guys.

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Speaker 2: The records bear it out. Those are like fifteen win

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Speaker 2: teams now, oh, well, Jay, look at all the teams. Now,

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Speaker 2: look at all the fifteen win team. Now, yeah, because

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Speaker 2: they're tanking. By the way, guys, I'll wrap up on this,

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Speaker 2: the amount of teams watching Wembin Yama utterly dominate the

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Speaker 2: league in year three, totally dominate.

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Speaker 1: He could win MVP.

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Speaker 2: He probably won't. He'll probably finish second or third in

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Speaker 2: year three. Do you think they wish they tanked a

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Speaker 2: few more games back then?

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Speaker 1: Just a few? Now?

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Speaker 2: I don't. Obviously Debonce is no Victor Webbin Yama. But

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Speaker 2: I mean, is Darius a cuff? Derek Rose? I mean,

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Speaker 2: Darren Peterson? What does he becoming? I have no clue,

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Speaker 2: nobody does. But the fact that you can get a

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Speaker 2: Victor Wombin Yama in three years to take over the league. Yes,

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Speaker 2: you could see he's a unicorn one in a million. Fine,

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Speaker 2: you know, yes, there's gonna be Zion Williamson flops and

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Speaker 2: Jahn Morant rise and flops. Cooper Flag I don't, I don't,

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Speaker 2: I mean Cooper Flag. I guess yeah. I would put

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Speaker 2: him ahead of Debansa. But I would put like the

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Speaker 2: top five guys in this draft over all the dudes

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Speaker 2: in that Alex SAR Draft except for maybe Castle, my guy.

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Speaker 2: But it's just it's gonna be fun, and I disagree

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Speaker 2: with you Mac tanking, sorry, not tanking. Expansion League's gonna

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Speaker 2: be fine, all right, We'll see tomorrow