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Speaker 1: This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. What is up?

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Speaker 1: Straight Fire? Fam, It's me Jason McIntyre Straight Fire for Thursday, June,

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Speaker 1: final day of the month, basically heading into July four weekend.

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Speaker 1: Very stoked for it, although I will say I've been

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Speaker 1: seeing some stuff, rob G. I don't know if you're

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Speaker 1: flying anywhere, you know, jet setting for the holiday weekend,

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Speaker 1: but I've seen some really ugly stuff about canceled flights

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Speaker 1: We you know, like, I don't know what's going on

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Speaker 1: out there. We don't have any huge summer trips planned.

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Speaker 1: But goodness gracious, if you're traveling for the upcoming July

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Speaker 1: fourth weekend, you know, it doesn't sound like it's a

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Speaker 1: pretty scene out there, rob You Are you going anywhere?

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Speaker 1: I am not. I am going up the street or

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Speaker 1: actually maybe a couple of miles to my brother in

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Speaker 1: law's house having a black party, and I'm going to

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Speaker 1: my mom's house for some fire works at night. But

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Speaker 1: to your point about the travel, I saw something on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if this is true. I just saw

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Speaker 1: it come on. Someone retweeted into my feed that it

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Speaker 1: was a flight I believe, from like Mississippi to Florida

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Speaker 1: and they were offering ten thousand dollars per person to

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Speaker 1: people from Mississippi going to Florida. There was something like that.

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Speaker 1: It was like an eight hour drive and it's like,

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Speaker 1: are you kidding me? Of course, like they're not. The

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Speaker 1: problem is they never offer cash, rob, right. They always

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Speaker 1: are like, canna have credit vouchers? Like, screw that. I

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Speaker 1: don't want that. Give me cold hard cash you want

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Speaker 1: a good laugh? So um, you know, every time the

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Speaker 1: lottery a k a. The stupid tech gets up to

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Speaker 1: like I don't know, three a million, you throw a

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Speaker 1: couple of bucks on him, right, I mean I do.

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Speaker 1: I haven't in a couple of years. But I got

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Speaker 1: a text from somebody who I will not name here

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Speaker 1: because they don't want to be named. It was like,

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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I think this. It feels like this

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Speaker 1: is the time to play the lottery. Right, So I

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Speaker 1: go and Rob, I haven't. I haven't bought a lottery

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Speaker 1: ticket in a couple of years. I apparently didn't know this.

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Speaker 1: You cannot use a credit card to buy lottery tickets

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Speaker 1: is that well known. I didn't know that. You didn't

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Speaker 1: know that, Okay, So I don't carry a debit card ever,

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Speaker 1: and I had like nine dollars on me, so I

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Speaker 1: And then I was like, oh, well, tucked into the wallet,

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Speaker 1: So it's like, oh, can you break a hundred? And

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Speaker 1: lottery and lottery tickets now were like expensive. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: This is basically what I'm doing waiting for sports to happen.

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Speaker 1: I'm like spending money on lottery tickets and to fill

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Speaker 1: up at the gas tank by the way, a cool

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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty eight dollars. Well that's because you don't

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Speaker 1: listen to me. I feel like I've told you on

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Speaker 1: the pod off the pod text messages, you know, hey,

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Speaker 1: get your gas at Costco. Yeah that was the name

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Speaker 1: plan this week. But good lines were massive, see and

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Speaker 1: I know people like their Chicago pizza, the New York pizza.

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Speaker 1: and it's super cheap. Rob It's like ten dollars for

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Speaker 1: a whole pizza. Wow. I only usually get a slice,

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Speaker 1: the deal. I was very bullish on it on social media.

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Speaker 1: its surface, Murray and Young is arguably the best backcourt

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Speaker 1: when you look at just backcourts. Trey Young and Dijon

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Speaker 1: the backcourts in the East. Are you ready for this?

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Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving and Seth Curry, give me Tray and Dejon

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Speaker 1: the case that Hardened and Mac you're better. But Harden

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Speaker 1: Marcus Smart and Jalen Brown are very good, a little

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Speaker 1: And I'm just gonna say. Synergy Sports put together a

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Speaker 1: list of scoring chances created by ball handlers in the

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Speaker 1: pick and roll last season. Trey Young number one, just

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Speaker 1: eviscerating people in the pick and roll. Number two, no surprise,

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Speaker 1: What do you think Murray's gonna do. Murray's gonna guard

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Speaker 1: the opponent's best offensive threat. So Trey Young, you can

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Speaker 1: so we're not going there. But you got the arguably

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Speaker 1: Conference finals? I mean, was it Pogdanovitch? Honestly, I don't

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Speaker 1: like DeAndre Aton. Again, I can't get over that video

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Speaker 1: this gonna be a guy who just gets his money

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Speaker 1: and it's like, okay, I'm gonna go through the motions now.

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Speaker 1: I like Capella on that team. I like a cong Woo.

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Speaker 1: So I love what the Atlanta Hawks did so far.

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Speaker 1: Obviously huge Curry fan. That being said, Draymond Green tried

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Speaker 1: and I think I think Wiseman is at least a

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Speaker 1: year away too before they're like legitimate playoff contributors. They're

424
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Speaker 1: just so young. It's just and so to me, it's

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Speaker 1: it's the Clippers by far. What do you You didn't

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Speaker 1: even mention Scotti Pippen Jr. With the Lakers. What if

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Speaker 1: he's the next Austin Reeves bro he might be just

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Speaker 1: one other name. I'll just say I heard real quick

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Speaker 1: on the Lakers. You know, Lebron is going to have

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Speaker 1: to start going out and recruiting dudes and he's gonna

431
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Speaker 1: have to sell them. Hey, you want to rejuvenate your career.

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Speaker 1: Look at Malik Monk. Nobody wanted him. Malik Bunk came

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Speaker 1: to us. People want him. Malik Bunk is on the uptick.

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Speaker 1: I can do this for you. Could he convince someone

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Speaker 1: like a Colin Sexton, Hey, man, don't go chase money

436
00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:56,440
Speaker 1: on a bad team. Come to us. We will help you. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying Colin sex is definitely happening or anything

438
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Speaker 1: along those lines. What a player of Colin Sexon's dilk

439
00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:07,040
Speaker 1: promise could was once a pretty damn good offensive player,

440
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Speaker 1: Like they need offensive guys, rob and I'm just if

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Speaker 1: Lebron comes to you and your it's like, hey man,

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00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:16,760
Speaker 1: you come to us, you're gonna have a chance. Look

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00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:19,440
Speaker 1: what we did for Austin Reeves. Look at the leak, Monk.

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Speaker 1: I can make this happen for you. I am King James.

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Speaker 1: Do you think he'll be able to recruit anybody, because

446
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Speaker 1: right now John Wall going Clippers that that had to

447
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Speaker 1: sting Lebron a little bit. Oh absolutely, I mean, well,

448
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Speaker 1: until we know what's going on with Russell Westbrook. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's hard to say whether or not John Wall would

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Speaker 1: have been the home run guy because you can't have

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Speaker 1: them both. You got you gotta have one or the other. Um.

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Speaker 1: But to your point, absolutely, if you're if you're a

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Speaker 1: mid tier kind of guy or a young guy who

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Speaker 1: was a lottery pick and didn't quite pan out the

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Speaker 1: way they expected to. Like to me, the guy who

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Speaker 1: stands out as Mo Bamba, Like Mo Bamba has all

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Speaker 1: the tools to be an upper echelane Uch five in

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Speaker 1: today's NBA. The problem is he was always hurt and

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Speaker 1: so you know, according to the reports of the Orlando Magic,

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Speaker 1: let him hit understricted free agency, and I'm sure someone's

461
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Speaker 1: gonna give him the full mid level, which is like

462
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Speaker 1: ten eleven million dollars. But if you're more Bomba and

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Speaker 1: again assuming health, if you can go to a situation

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Speaker 1: like the Lakers, like maybe you know the Celtics, where

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Speaker 1: you are the third, fourth option and all you gotta

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Speaker 1: do is hit wide open threes and play a little defense.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you take the five million, six million this year

468
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Speaker 1: and next year you might double triple your value. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's what's gonna happen with Malik Monk. Malik Monk took

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Speaker 1: the minimum and now they're saying he's looking at at

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Speaker 1: least the mid level from some of these teams. That's

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Speaker 1: five times the value. Well how about this, how about

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Speaker 1: this comparison? Could more Bomba? Is there any chance it's

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Speaker 1: mo Bamba? If you squint really hard, could you see

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Speaker 1: the outline maybe of a Robert Williams from the Celtics

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Speaker 1: long shot blocking machine athletic Young has some injuries and oh,

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Speaker 1: by the way, Mobama actually has range. He was shooting

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Speaker 1: four three pointers a game. You know, listen, He's not

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Speaker 1: gonna be, you know, on six threes a game kind

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Speaker 1: of guy. But if you can step out and it

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Speaker 1: the occasional three, that'd be great. Can you see any

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Speaker 1: Mo Bamba and Robert Williams? Not really, I see more

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Speaker 1: of an athletic Brook Lopez or a Miles Turner. And

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Speaker 1: Miles Turner. It was one of the hottest commodities coming

485
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Speaker 1: into this offseason because not only is he a stretch five,

486
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Speaker 1: but he's on an expiring deal. He's making eighteen million.

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Speaker 1: So if you're a Mo Bamba, why why wouldn't you

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Speaker 1: take less money for one year somewhere where you go

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Speaker 1: to You go to a place, maybe it's Phoenix where

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Speaker 1: Chris Paul is just setting you up all all game

491
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Speaker 1: for these wide open lobs and wide open three pointers,

492
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Speaker 1: and you cash in huge next season when more teams

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Speaker 1: have cap space. Because I'm sure he's not gonna want

494
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Speaker 1: to go to like the Spurs or you know, uh

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Speaker 1: what the Pistons. You know, wouldn't you rather cash in

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Speaker 1: on a team that can actually do something? Uh? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I was just say it's easy to slander a lot

498
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Speaker 1: of folks, but I think we need to lay off

499
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Speaker 1: Pistons slander because they seem like they're on the come up.

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Speaker 1: It's early, you know, Uh, Little Jade and Ivy hype

501
00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 1: Kate Cunningham got very good. By the end of the year,

502
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, it's like, huh, they've got a

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Speaker 1: lot of cap room. I don't know if they're gonna

504
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Speaker 1: get eaten, but is there a chance this Pistons team

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Speaker 1: is decent? And again I'll repeat, the East is not

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Speaker 1: very good. Outside of like the top five or six,

507
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Speaker 1: there's a huge drop off in the East. Fox Sports

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Speaker 1: s R to listen live. Brook Lopez is an interesting name.

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Speaker 1: The other interesting name. It's kind of a preview here

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Speaker 1: for free agency. P J. Tucker is like the hot

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Speaker 1: guy that's who everybody wants Rob Oh my gosh, because

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Speaker 1: he's the perfect small ball five. He's gritty, he's tough,

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Speaker 1: he doesn't back down from anybody. He'll hit the occasional

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Speaker 1: timely three. But I don't know. He had a rough

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Speaker 1: playoff run. I don't know, man, I just don't see

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Speaker 1: how p J. Tucker is like the most important free

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Speaker 1: agent guy this summer. Well, the team that he's been

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Speaker 1: linked to the most because it looks like he's gonna

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Speaker 1: leave Miami has been Philly. And if you're the Sixers,

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Speaker 1: maybe this is just specific to them. One thing that

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Speaker 1: you are absolutely lacking in spades is mental toughness, and

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Speaker 1: that's something that p J. Tucker can bring. Not only

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Speaker 1: would he be able to space the floor for Hardened

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Speaker 1: who's now very slow, and Joel Embiide, who is a

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Speaker 1: little bit of a plotter. So you open up the

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Speaker 1: floor for those two guys, and and and all you

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Speaker 1: have to do is defend and stand in the corner.

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Speaker 1: But that's something that that team specifically, maybe it's worth

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Speaker 1: to them to overpay for that kind of thing because

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Speaker 1: where else are they going to get it. You're not

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Speaker 1: going to develop it in house. It doesn't look like. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The other thing interesting story about how centers can win

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Speaker 1: you a lot of games in the regular season, but

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs usually teams are bringing their center off

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Speaker 1: the floor and it's more wing oriented, where you're switching

539
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Speaker 1: on everything right, you're able to everybody on the court

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Speaker 1: can make shots from the perimeter and the wings can

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Speaker 1: create better than centers. So p J. Tucker's value is

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Speaker 1: he's a small ball center. So when it comes down

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Speaker 1: to crunch time, like, yeah, he's gonna be on the floor,

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Speaker 1: Like you know, Brook Lopez is getting pulled increasingly for

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Speaker 1: a guy like a Pat Connaughton who can guard multiple

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Speaker 1: positions on the wing and at threes, can take somebody

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Speaker 1: off the dribble um. You know, PJ. P J Tucker

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Speaker 1: would help with him, bead. They remember there was a

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Speaker 1: lack of toughness on that team last year. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to say they got punked by the heat. No,

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00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:16,040
Speaker 1: they got punked. They got pushed around. Um, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Why can't Lebron get p J. Tucker next day? Anthony Davis,

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00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:21,720
Speaker 1: you know, think that'd be great? Well, I think he could,

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Speaker 1: But the problem is that they only got that six

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Speaker 1: million to offer. And if you're a p J. Tucker

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Speaker 1: who's thirty seven, like, there's no there he can't wait

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Speaker 1: to cash in. If he can cash in now, he's

558
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Speaker 1: got to do it. It's a different situation than some

559
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Speaker 1: of the younger guys. I will say that this free

560
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 1: agent class, you know, everyone gets so excited, you know,

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Speaker 1: because we're only a few hours now away from from

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Speaker 1: NBA phrasey officially opening. Everyone gets so excited about the names.

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Speaker 1: It's like, oh, you know, so and so, Mike go here,

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Speaker 1: Zach Levine might go here. And from what I'm reading,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you might have read the same, it's looking

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Speaker 1: increasingly likely that the biggest name to change teams is

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Speaker 1: going to be jaylen Brunson. No, come on, listen, Zach

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Speaker 1: Lavine is out there. I know that. It sounds like

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Speaker 1: he's gonna come back. Dejon to Murray not a free agent,

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Speaker 1: but on the move, John Collins possibly on the Movia trade.

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Speaker 1: Um who was the other potential, Oh, Donna Mitchell, he's

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Speaker 1: still got I know he's not a free agent, but

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Speaker 1: still yeah, well like DeAndre a and everyone thought he

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Speaker 1: was gonna leave, and I still I think he will

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Speaker 1: leave it at some point. But he was most linked

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Speaker 1: to the Pistons. The Pistons made that deal with the

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Speaker 1: Knicks to absorb the cap space, so suddenly they can't

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Speaker 1: offer the full max to DeAndre a And anymore unless

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Speaker 1: there's like another trade coming where they flip Burkes or no,

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Speaker 1: well to somebody else so it's just like the I

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Speaker 1: made a joke on Twitter on Tuesday night that the

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Speaker 1: Knicks were clearing space for Jalen Brunson, like it was

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Speaker 1: twenty ten Lebron James, like that's what they were doing,

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Speaker 1: and is just no, but it's not. It's not meant

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Speaker 1: to slander him. It's just like, this is not a

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Speaker 1: great free agent class. This is not Kevin Durant, this

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Speaker 1: is not Lebron, Wade and Bosh all at the same time, Like,

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Speaker 1: you know, Bradley Beale would have been a great guy,

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Speaker 1: but he's by all accounts, just gonna take the money

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Speaker 1: and stay in DC. Even though he told anyone who

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Speaker 1: would listen, you know, I want to win, that's my goal.

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Speaker 1: It's like, no, it's not. You want to get the

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Speaker 1: bag and that's fine, just be honest about it. Um. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm hopeful that a guy like Mitchell's on

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Speaker 1: the move. I don't know that Rudy Gobert is that

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Speaker 1: attractive of a guy, because again, is he gonna play

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Speaker 1: um in the playoffs, Like Rudy Gobert was non factor

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Speaker 1: against Dallas, which didn't even have a center. But to

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00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:41,440
Speaker 1: go back to Mo Bamba, I do have a buddy

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Speaker 1: who does a lot of stuff with the Mo Bamba

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Speaker 1: and I just texted him and it's pretty clear that

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Speaker 1: there's some interest in Mo Bamba where he would love

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Speaker 1: to come west and and play with the Lakers. Listen,

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Speaker 1: there is an opportunity to rehab the career, and again

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Speaker 1: a rehab might be strong because he's so young, but

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Speaker 1: you know, injuries obviously staying Listen, Elliston, if you have

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00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:05,719
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis and him up front and neither can stay healthy,

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Speaker 1: well that's a problem and Lebron will have another wasted

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Speaker 1: season on his hands. But Mo Bamba is just twenty

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Speaker 1: four years old. That's it. Rob Um. He started a

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Speaker 1: grand total of six games in his first three years

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Speaker 1: in Orlando, But again Orlando is a dumpster fire. You know,

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Speaker 1: um Ken block shots, you know, is he is he

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Speaker 1: Javaial McGhee in terms of playing a little? Is he

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Speaker 1: Dwight Howard in terms of playing alongside Anthony Davis. I

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Speaker 1: think that's a good get for the for the Lakers.

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Speaker 1: That be a good building block. Certainly, not everything, but

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Speaker 1: it feels like for sure that would be a big victory,

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Speaker 1: a feather in the cap, if you will, of the

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Speaker 1: Lakers front office, which has been taken some arrows lately. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: And and that's weird that we're talking this much about

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Speaker 1: Mobama because it's like it's Mo Bamba, no offense to him.

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Speaker 1: But if you're the Orlando Magic and your team has

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Speaker 1: sucked for what three or four years now, like you're

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Speaker 1: You're eight season, was you won one game in the

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Speaker 1: playoffs and you lost in five? I think to the Raptors.

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Speaker 1: I think that's what it was the Kauai season, Like,

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Speaker 1: what are you doing just giving up assets for nothing?

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Speaker 1: Are you really that loaded? With Wendell Carter, uh, Jonathan

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Speaker 1: Isaac who I think hasn't played like in two years,

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Speaker 1: and Paolo Bancaro upfront. Now that you don't have you

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Speaker 1: can't give the qualifying offer to Mo Bamba just to

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Speaker 1: see what you have, Like, like, that's why bad teams

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Speaker 1: stay bad, is because they do stuff like that. Someone

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Speaker 1: has floated three other potential centers to play alongside Anthony

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Speaker 1: Davis for the Lakers. Are you ready Lakers fans? Isaiah

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Speaker 1: Hartenstein of the Clippers, who's a solid backup. He's solid

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Speaker 1: bomba of course, and then Thomas Bryant of the Wizards,

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Speaker 1: Thomas Bryant was a pretty darn good player at Indiana,

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Speaker 1: and he hasn't really done much in the league. He's

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Speaker 1: been in Washington for a minute, and nobody thrives in Washington.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, if you want to be

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Speaker 1: one of those guys who's like, listen, Lebron can resuscitate careers,

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Speaker 1: he can help. I don't see why you don't, you know,

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Speaker 1: if you're on the on the fringe, like, hey, I'll

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Speaker 1: just go to the Lakers. I get to live in

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Speaker 1: l A. I know the taxes are brutal, but the visibility.

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Speaker 1: I think we've talked about this, Rob. You could just

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Speaker 1: get sponsorship deals, you can start to segue into the

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Speaker 1: media with all the media out here in l A.

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Speaker 1: Uh not treating it like n I l But if

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Speaker 1: you really want to, there's opportunities to try to get

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Speaker 1: into Hollywood and you know, TV shows whatever, Like there's

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Speaker 1: so many opportunities out here, like mo bamba. Are you

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Speaker 1: really going to take that from like San Antonio? Like

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Speaker 1: not that that's happening, but it's just very weird that

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Speaker 1: the Lakers would not be attracting people. The Clippers have

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Speaker 1: like no room, Rob, right, there like out of space

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Speaker 1: to get guys. The good thing about them, though, is

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Speaker 1: their owner, you know, finds a million dollars in his

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Speaker 1: couch cushions every three or four days, so he can

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Speaker 1: pay whatever the luxury taxes. I mean. But to your

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Speaker 1: point about just being on the Lakers and and the marketability,

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Speaker 1: I know, Athne David is maybe not the best example

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Speaker 1: because he was already a star. But Anthony Davis, as

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Speaker 1: soon as he got to l A got his own

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Speaker 1: flavor of ruffles chips like that was not happening in

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Speaker 1: New Orleans. I think a better example, and I don't

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Speaker 1: even know if you know this when Mike Brown became

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Speaker 1: the coach of the Lakers, when Kobe was there with

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Speaker 1: pow and I think that they lost to the Durant Thunder,

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Speaker 1: you know, in the first round. As soon as he

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Speaker 1: showed up to his press conference, they noticed he wore glasses.

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Speaker 1: Within a week, I believe, Oakley calls him and says,

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Speaker 1: we will be your official sponsor. You will only wear

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Speaker 1: Oakley glasses on the bench for Laker games. Are you interested?

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Speaker 1: He's like, sure, I don't know. But it's just like

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Speaker 1: Mike Brown, who nobody in l A could you know,

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Speaker 1: draw out of a lineup and just because he is

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Speaker 1: the Lakers coach, gets a sponsorship deal with Oakley, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the coach. Yeah. Listen, it's good to be in the

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Speaker 1: in the Laker business. Which is not to say that

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Speaker 1: you can't make a deal like that happen in Charlotte.

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Speaker 1: Actually you can't make that deal. I mean, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure you cannot. But um, I guess you

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Speaker 1: know that. Rob, You're kind of right. I'm looking down

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Speaker 1: the list, like who else can we talk about? There

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Speaker 1: just aren't a ton of guys. We'll see what happens

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Speaker 1: with Ayton. Hopefully something spicy does, because otherwise, you know,

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Speaker 1: we might have to already just dump NBA and start

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Speaker 1: talking to an NFL, which I have no problem with

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Speaker 1: because you know, we talked gambling NFL a lot um.

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Speaker 1: You know, Baker Mayfield kind of waiting on DeShawn Watson.

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Speaker 1: We should have some clarity very suit shortly. But other

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Speaker 1: than that, it's like, enjoy the NBA free agency. Hopefully mess.

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Speaker 1: I'm hoping for a mess because that's good for business.

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Speaker 1: When there's chaos and confusion and all that, Rob, it's

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Speaker 1: great for our business, so hopefully we'll have some awesome

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Speaker 1: stuff to overnight and we'll talk about it tomorrow. We'll

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Speaker 1: see that