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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. Hey, what's up,

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Speaker 1: party people, It's me Jason McIntyre, Straight Fire, Thursday, April fifteen.

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Speaker 1: I need to start the show with a public service announcement. Yes, folks,

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Speaker 1: it's my return to Undisputed. I know you've been waiting

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Speaker 1: with bated breath, But tomorrow morning, yes Friday, I will

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Speaker 1: be returning to Undisputed. I'll be with Chris Broussard, LaVar

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Speaker 1: Errington and Greg Jennings. Should be fun filling in for

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Speaker 1: Shiinon and Skip. Make sure to set the DVR. Your

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Speaker 1: boy gonna be firing on all cylinders early Friday morning.

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Speaker 1: All right, one to Straight Fire. Obviously we'll get to

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Speaker 1: the Big Nets Sixers game a little bit later in

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I don't have a ton on that. I

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Speaker 1: kind of like to toggle between NFL and basketball, and

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Speaker 1: I'll just say this for now. Um NBA regular season

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Speaker 1: Draft is now two weeks away, and I'm kind of amped.

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Speaker 1: So I want to focus on the NFL Draft, and

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Speaker 1: I think I got a good angle for today UM,

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Speaker 1: if you follow me on the Graham you know, I've

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Speaker 1: been reading this book, The Inner Book of Tennis. It

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Speaker 1: ain't about tennis, self improvement, all this silly stuff, but

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Speaker 1: it actually is kind of awesome. I've discussed it on

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Speaker 1: this podcast before. Highly recommend the book. No, I'm not

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Speaker 1: getting paid to say that, but I think some of

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Speaker 1: this stuff in the book applies to the Trevor Lawrence

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Speaker 1: situation in Jacksonville. And I know what you're saying, what

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Speaker 1: what what Trevor Lawrence situation? Well, I mean, Trevor Lawrence

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Speaker 1: is gonna be the number one pick in the draft,

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Speaker 1: no doubt about it, and he's kind of getting lost

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Speaker 1: in the shuffle. Nobody's talking about Jacksonville at one or

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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence at one because it's a done deal, right,

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Speaker 1: What is there to talk about? Um, I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: sit here and pump up the Jacksonville free agency. It

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Speaker 1: was above average, I thought. I'm not gonna say Trevor

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Speaker 1: But I'm going to talk for a moment about this

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Speaker 1: story that came out about Trevor Lawrence and Sports Illustrated.

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Speaker 1: You know, I know Sports Illustrated isn't the magazine that

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Speaker 1: In the eighties, Sports Illustrated was everything like, yeah, we

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Speaker 1: and I are are. We We grew up in northern

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Speaker 1: So I was still relying on, you know, the newspaper

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Speaker 1: and sports Illus Trade. Sports Illus Trade obviously has you know,

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Speaker 1: gone significantly through some tough times, as entire media has.

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Speaker 1: But s I had a pretty decent piece on Trevor

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Speaker 1: don't want to say it went viral, but it got

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Speaker 1: it had to do with this quote that Trevor Lawrence said,

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Speaker 1: But um here's the quote. Okay, Trevor Lawrence to Sports

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Speaker 1: You've got to prove somebody wrong. You've got to do more,

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Speaker 1: any rate. This quote from Trevor Lawrence to me struck

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Speaker 1: He ended up winning a Heisman UM and his story

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Speaker 1: is great, but he has always thrived with that chip

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Speaker 1: But just because you go one, it's not a slam

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Speaker 1: and there was pressure on Baker in the first couple

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Speaker 1: of the UM game. So we're looking at uh, Indiana Chicago.

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Speaker 1: By the way, my bulls, they look terrible. It would

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Speaker 1: be a travesty if like Washington or Toronto pass the bulls,

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Speaker 1: UM and snuck in. Pacers are not going to be

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Speaker 1: a threat. Bulls are not gonna be a threat. Charlotte.

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Speaker 1: I I just don't see it happening. They're starting to

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Speaker 1: fall apart, UH without Gordon Hayward and LaMelo Ball And

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Speaker 1: so now you're like, oh, Sixers are gonna win the

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Speaker 1: first round, and then the second round they're gonna get

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Speaker 1: probably Hawks or Celtics or Heat. Now the Heat or

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Speaker 1: the interesting team. We know they haven't been there totally

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Speaker 1: this season, but they have the talent. Celtics. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm bullish. I remain bullish, UM. But if you're the

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Speaker 1: number two seat, you're probably gonna have to battle thibodeaus

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Speaker 1: Nicks in the first round, and you know that he's

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Speaker 1: not gonna get punked. They will play very hard, and

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Speaker 1: then in the second round you're gonna face the Books.

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Speaker 1: So it'll be so the Nets don't want that to

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Speaker 1: seat and UM, I don't know I think they're probably

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Speaker 1: gonna have to play k D and Harden a lot

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Speaker 1: here down the stretch to get it. Overall, no big

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Speaker 1: sweeping takeaways from the game elsewhere in the league. I

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Speaker 1: will just say this, the Clippers continue to luck box

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Speaker 1: their way into victories. Okay, no Paul George, no Kauai.

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Speaker 1: Leonard and Reggie Jackson bails them out by beating the

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Speaker 1: Pistons with like two seconds left on on a tw

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Speaker 1: and Reggie Jackson at nine carried him Luke Kennard seventeen

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Speaker 1: points on seven teen shots. Like this is just not

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Speaker 1: a good Clippers team. We know Kauai's load managing getting

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Speaker 1: ready for the playoffs, the Paul George toe injury bears watching,

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Speaker 1: But overall, I'm just telling you the Clippers are They're

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Speaker 1: not built for the postseason. And um that that'll do

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Speaker 1: it for today's pod. We'll talk to you tomorrow.