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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Unplugged, presented to you by Draft Kings.

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Speaker 1: The Crown is yours. Today we got a special episode.

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Speaker 1: We're out here in La teaming up with Meta and

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Speaker 1: Threads to sit down and have a great conversation with

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Speaker 1: the head of Threads, Connor Hayes and then also a

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Speaker 1: friend of the program, Kendrick Perkins. Make sure you guys

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Speaker 1: tap in and enjoy. What an honor to be your

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Speaker 1: guys's first live Threads pod, which is super dope. Shout

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Speaker 1: out Meta, thank you everyone for being here. Some of

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Speaker 1: the top content creators on Threads are in here, and

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Speaker 1: I'm just letting you know. Now let's work whoever you are,

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Speaker 1: wherever you are, Let's let's do some stuff together. We're

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Speaker 1: really excited to be on Threads and doing Threads and

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Speaker 1: again host this event today.

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Speaker 2: Perk welcome man. How are you, bro? You're good. I'm

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Speaker 2: talking to you.

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Speaker 3: And I'm just saying, Matt, you hit me with the

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Speaker 3: corporate like, yeah, how you doing. Welcome bro, what's up?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm about what.

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to set that up because I'm about

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Speaker 1: to get into that side. I think you guys. You

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Speaker 1: guys get to see ESPN Park. But when parkins with us,

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Speaker 1: Park is a different animal. Kendrick motherfucking Perkins is what

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Speaker 1: they call him on our show because him and Vernon

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Speaker 1: Maxwell are tied for the most motherfuckers you could say

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Speaker 2: Park. Whatever, Man, how's everything? Man?

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Speaker 3: I'm good man. I appreciate y'all having me, man. I

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Speaker 3: appreciate It's always good when I get with you too.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we want to want to plug you in and

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Speaker 1: meet the Meta family and in the Thrance family, you know,

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Speaker 1: briden your horizons a little bit. You know, it was

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Speaker 1: a pleasure to meet. That's the boss man right there.

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Speaker 1: He's a big fan of it. Yeah, that Celtic Green.

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Speaker 1: First of all, congratulations. I think it was last year

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Speaker 1: you signed your new ESPN deal. What has that been arts?

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Speaker 2: This year? Right? Earlier this year? That last year? Last year? Okay,

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Speaker 2: but how's that been going?

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Speaker 3: I mean it's you know, I'm grateful. I'm gonna say

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Speaker 3: that it's been a grind, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 2: You all over the TV.

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Speaker 3: You're gonna work at eight o'clock, nine o'clock, ten o'clock,

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Speaker 3: eleven clock, twelve, o'clock.

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Speaker 2: So you're gonna work.

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Speaker 3: But I'm blessed though, because I mean open up a

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Speaker 3: lot of other doors and a lot of opportunities that

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Speaker 3: be honest, you know, as guys like ourselves, you staged

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Speaker 3: Jalen Rose, who really opened the door for former players

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Speaker 3: to come in and beat themselves. Right, and then you

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Speaker 3: realize that you meet so many people and sit in

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Speaker 3: so many rooms, right, and have so many relationships. I

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Speaker 3: think you know, one of my biggest regrets as a player.

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Speaker 3: And we all go through this when we playing basketball.

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Speaker 3: When we hooping, we don't give a fuck about nothing else, right,

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Speaker 3: it's just about hooping. We may pass people up, they

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Speaker 3: may give us their business cars. We keep it moving,

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Speaker 3: and we don't know where their business cards are. Now

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Speaker 3: we're in this space, more people see us. Now those

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Speaker 3: business cards actually mean something. They going in the wiled Endamn,

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Speaker 3: the text message going out the next morning. It was

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Speaker 3: a pleasure to meeting you. And then all of a

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Speaker 3: sudden you're develop in those relationships. And I think that's

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Speaker 3: the most that's the best thing that didn't happen for

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Speaker 3: me being in this media space.

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Speaker 1: Two part question, what is the best part about working

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Speaker 3: I think the best part about it is again the visibility.

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Speaker 3: The visibility, right, the visibility comes more opportunity something I

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Speaker 3: just harped on. That's the best part about it. Can't

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Speaker 3: about it is finding that balance, right because we're in

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Speaker 3: the media space now where you know, so many players

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Speaker 4: In certain situations experience is the only thing that you

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Speaker 2: So to have that experience.

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Speaker 4: If you don't have it, then it's kind of hard

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Speaker 4: there because experience is very you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 4: Very people have that experience, they have that conversation with.

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Speaker 3: And it's and it's crazy because we like the other day,

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Speaker 3: I was talking about Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City Thunder and

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Speaker 3: and like I overemphasized it. I'm like, people talk about

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Speaker 3: sacrificing in the locker room, but that shit hardest hell

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Speaker 3: they was the reason two thousand and eight, I came

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Speaker 3: back in two thousand and nine. You couldn't have told

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Speaker 3: I wasn't a shit And everybody feel that way. So

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Speaker 3: when you watch a young team like OKC and you

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Speaker 3: bad body language. You don't see no one hating on nobody.

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Speaker 3: We know Sga is the go to guy. And you

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Speaker 3: and Surge. The biggest downfall of that team was the

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Speaker 3: sacrifice important. So it's just like when I thought, I

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Speaker 4: In it's different, you know what I'm saying. Teams that

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Speaker 4: win everybody by in everybody on the same thing. You

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Speaker 4: said something on ESPN recently, and I agree with you,

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Speaker 4: but I want you to kind of explain it. You said,

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Speaker 4: Shadua Sanders is the most powerful black man in America

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Speaker 4: since since Barack Obama explained that.

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Speaker 2: I meant it to Steve Stack.

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Speaker 3: I meant that shit with every bone in my body

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Speaker 3: because what I started to realize is that when he

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Speaker 2: The Raider game.

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Speaker 3: And so what I realized was, once your doer, this

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Speaker 3: the first thing, once your doer Sanders is playing, all

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Speaker 3: beef stops at that moment. Right, it's the first time

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Speaker 3: that you actually could go on social media X, Instagram, TikTok.

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Speaker 2: Threads, what up? Threads? Threads? Right, yeah, absolutely, threads, threads.

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Speaker 2: I was gonna say it. He beat me to it,

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Speaker 3: So you go on there, right, and it's nothing but

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Speaker 3: positive vibes. I can't I can't name one guy besides

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Speaker 3: Acho that's you on this beef, not mine.

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Speaker 1: I know, respondsperate right now.

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Speaker 2: But go ahead, I know you go, I know it. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: But so it's the first time that I've seen like

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Speaker 3: where it's like, man, everybody in the black community is

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Speaker 3: you might catch yourself arguing all day with certain.

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Speaker 2: People, right, I got I don't mind that sometimes.

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Speaker 3: And so and so it's like you see people that's

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Speaker 3: man my seventy three year old grandmother watched the door

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Speaker 3: and it's like, not Eve me, a person that didn't

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Speaker 2: And so people don't understand.

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Speaker 3: It's like people are rooting for a guy that was

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Speaker 3: a fifth round pick. It's only one guy that has

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Speaker 3: like on that team that's top fifty in Jersey says,

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Speaker 3: that's your doer, right and so, and he kills you

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Speaker 3: in his interviews because he has.

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Speaker 2: That balance of.

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Speaker 3: Being arrogant flashy, which I'm cool with because he put

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Speaker 3: the work in you know what I mean, if you shine,

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Speaker 3: put it in their face. But then he also killed

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Speaker 3: him with the I want to give all praise to God,

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Speaker 3: and it hurt they soul because he won't. They want

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Speaker 3: him to take the bait. They throw the rod out there.

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Speaker 3: He never do.

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Speaker 2: He never throws coach under the bus. So when I

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Speaker 1: Think that coach needs to be thrown off the bus.

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Speaker 1: But go ahead, I think under the bus.

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Speaker 3: To Ben five. Yea, but nah, But that's that's what

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Speaker 3: I say. I mean, like real talk. You know y'all

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Speaker 3: people showing up, bro, think about it. They just played

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Speaker 3: everybody in their mama was watching that game. If Shadul

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Speaker 4: You know something too, Shad's doing what we wish our

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Speaker 4: biggest thing he's doing. Like you talk about all races,

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Speaker 4: everybody's rooting for them. You know what I'm saying, because

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Speaker 4: everybody see him not getting a fair shot. You know

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Speaker 4: what I'm saying. Why, we don't know. But at the

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Speaker 4: end of the day, he's doing something we wish everybody

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Speaker 4: were doing. That's bringing people together. I love it.

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Speaker 1: Jack, give give everyone a walk down memory lane of

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Speaker 1: how you and perk all each other.

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Speaker 2: What's your guy's history? Yeah, so real short, we grew up.

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Speaker 4: Our hometowns are ten minutes from each other and put

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Speaker 4: off the Beaumont we're the only two to have our

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Speaker 4: high school coaches, the only high school's coach coach in

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Speaker 4: Texas to have two guys go out of high.

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Speaker 2: School and both be NBA champions.

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Speaker 4: We both came out of high school with the same

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Speaker 4: when he was in high school, my coach asked me

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Speaker 4: a big little brother, you know what I'm saying, for

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Speaker 4: the last twenty years. So I'm so proud of him, bro,

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Speaker 4: and I'm just I'm just happy you having all that success.

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Speaker 3: You give it, he give me, y'all. A short version

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Speaker 3: this longer. It's stack pulling up. We was tripping. I

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Speaker 3: Came in and were like this Steve Jackson, like Steve

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Speaker 3: the super cat.

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Speaker 2: A lot of drugs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what kind of monster was perking high school?

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Speaker 4: saying exactly, He did the things to make his teams better.

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Speaker 4: But if you would have seen him in high school,

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Speaker 4: But yeah, broa, yeah, no, he blocked Kd's dune. He

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Speaker 1: This is a random thought forgive me, but obviously this

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Speaker 1: What Jack is explaining now, how Perk was because when

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Speaker 1: But pickupball is a whole nother monster because there's no coaches,

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Speaker 1: So for you real basketball fans in here in the summertime,

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Speaker 2: Nothing like it, Perk.

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Speaker 1: Obviously you were able to go straight to the league

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Speaker 2: They've since acts that rule.

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Speaker 1: What is your thought on possibly bringing it back or

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Speaker 1: do you still think the kids need one year out

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Speaker 2: What is the one year doing? Nothing?

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Speaker 3: Like seriously, what I mean, what is the one year doing?

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Speaker 3: Like real talk, what is the one year doing? I

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Speaker 3: The last time we've seen that was what Tim Duncan.

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Speaker 3: they just didn't They wasn't healthy. But it's still taking

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Speaker 3: I don't understand it. I don't understand what is the

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Speaker 3: for one year to say that they're developing at what?

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Speaker 3: And no one can answer that question. No one can

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Speaker 3: answer the question why they made the rule right? No

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Speaker 2: It away in Cuba.

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Speaker 1: But it's also the same body that allows twenty seven

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Speaker 2: And that's what I'm saying, Let's go to war.

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Speaker 4: You can go fight for the country at eighteen, but

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Speaker 2: That's right, That's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: So you you got, you got everything you got overseas

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Speaker 3: what's the kid aj De bounds to what he's doing

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Speaker 2: Culture thing. Yeah, it's a culture thing.

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Speaker 1: One of the boozer boys, Kayleb Williams.

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Speaker 2: So they can make a jump right now. Yes, I

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Speaker 1: You're you were still drafted in a time where they

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Speaker 2: Jack got a free pass.

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Speaker 1: If you guys haven't heard the story of Kenya, Martin

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Speaker 1: Vin Baker club shiz Nip. What was your rookie year

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Speaker 3: Y'all want the honest truth, don't fields part of it?

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Speaker 3: I mean, man, what do I start?

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Speaker 2: I know? I know.

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Speaker 3: The first thing that I had that I realized is

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Speaker 3: He had a few rules. The first rule was, you know,

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Speaker 3: GP he always wore those damn dicky Dicky suits.

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Speaker 3: He always he wore those dicky suits. He had the gray,

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Speaker 2: Let me in. Then I got to ask him.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, hey, bro, what the on that man? I like,

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Speaker 3: Payton son me. I gotta get a bottle of patronk

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Speaker 3: so you know the tax coming with that, right, So

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Speaker 3: it to be like, may you know you my guy?

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Speaker 2: Good? Damn?

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Speaker 1: your former ball club that did the team you came

434
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Speaker 1: in with. What are your thoughts on just this team?

435
00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:10,399
Speaker 1: I think we touched on it obviously, but can you

436
00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:13,080
Speaker 1: compare and contrast kind of your young team to this

437
00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:13,720
Speaker 1: younger team.

438
00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:17,679
Speaker 2: I can't. Can't nothing nothing, nothing similar. I can't.

439
00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:21,040
Speaker 3: I can't nothing is the same. I can't that that

440
00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:24,359
Speaker 3: team play for each other. I can't compare them.

441
00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:25,800
Speaker 2: To you guys. Issues.

442
00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:29,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, that team right there plays for each other. They

443
00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:33,320
Speaker 3: play for one another. It means something to them that

444
00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:36,880
Speaker 3: each one of those guys to be successful. They want

445
00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:40,919
Speaker 3: each each other to be successful. I'm looking at this team, man,

446
00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:44,879
Speaker 3: and I you know, Devin Booker had like something to

447
00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:47,439
Speaker 3: say like two weeks ago about this squad, right He

448
00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:49,840
Speaker 3: was like, we figured out the secret sauce. This is

449
00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:52,480
Speaker 3: before a last night game, and I'm.

450
00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:54,560
Speaker 2: Like, last night game and they lost by forty.

451
00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:57,119
Speaker 3: Fifty, and I was I was saying to myself, what

452
00:21:57,160 --> 00:21:59,359
Speaker 3: the fuck is the secret sauce? So he was like

453
00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:01,679
Speaker 3: all they do is this, this and this, And I'm like,

454
00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:04,919
Speaker 3: they got on the floor last night and gave him

455
00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:05,440
Speaker 3: a spanking.

456
00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:07,240
Speaker 2: Man. I first of all, I.

457
00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:10,320
Speaker 3: Believe that they're gonna beat the Warriors record that's seventy

458
00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:10,920
Speaker 3: three and nine.

459
00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:11,800
Speaker 2: They're gonna beat that.

460
00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:16,520
Speaker 3: I just never seen a team in my lifetime that

461
00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:21,040
Speaker 3: is stacked with that many two way players ye both

462
00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:23,840
Speaker 3: sides of the ball, and especially at the perimeter. Now,

463
00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:26,760
Speaker 3: we didn't seen some elite teams win something played on

464
00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:28,200
Speaker 3: some one championship.

465
00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:31,480
Speaker 2: I just don't. I haven't seen especially at the perimeter.

466
00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:35,160
Speaker 3: When you look at it, it's like Louke Dorts, Alex Caruso,

467
00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:43,760
Speaker 3: Caseon Wallace, Jalen Williams, the kid aj Mitchell. He's an

468
00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:47,199
Speaker 3: elite defender both ways. Hell is GA even defend at

469
00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:50,400
Speaker 3: the high level. And I'm like, it's no drop off, right,

470
00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:52,880
Speaker 3: And so I'm looking at SGA.

471
00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:58,000
Speaker 2: ISGA giving me Michael Jordan type viobs?

472
00:22:58,119 --> 00:22:58,359
Speaker 5: Man?

473
00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:02,240
Speaker 3: He giving me Jordan type vibes. And when I say

474
00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:06,720
Speaker 3: that is because Jordan not only would he give your

475
00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:12,320
Speaker 3: ass thirty? But it was on fifty percent shooting SGA

476
00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:16,160
Speaker 3: is leading the league and made two point jump shots.

477
00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:20,720
Speaker 3: Ninety one percent of his shots is contested.

478
00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,400
Speaker 2: God damn. He is shooting.

479
00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:28,960
Speaker 3: Fifty six percent from the field though fifty six percent.

480
00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:33,639
Speaker 3: It's big man who don't finish the season shooting fifty

481
00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:37,200
Speaker 3: percent from the field and all they do is dunking layups.

482
00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:41,840
Speaker 3: He is shooting fifty six percent forty five percent from three.

483
00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:44,879
Speaker 3: Now I wouldn't say, I wouldn't say he's giving me

484
00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:48,840
Speaker 3: Michael Jordan vibs just because it's twenty five. No, this

485
00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:52,320
Speaker 3: has been the last three and a half seasons that

486
00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:56,000
Speaker 3: he's averaged thirty and shot over fifty two percent from

487
00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:59,360
Speaker 3: the field on step back in two point jump shots.

488
00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:03,679
Speaker 3: And I'm like, man, and he's not slowing down. And

489
00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,199
Speaker 3: I'm sitting up here saying, name me another guy that

490
00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:09,760
Speaker 3: was doing it at this level at six six, not

491
00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:12,239
Speaker 3: because of that letter says, I ain't comparing him to that,

492
00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:14,639
Speaker 3: But I'm talking about when it comes down to getting

493
00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:21,080
Speaker 3: a bucket shit.

494
00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,800
Speaker 2: Presty a beautiful mind.

495
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:25,040
Speaker 1: What he's been able to do with this organization, the

496
00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:28,119
Speaker 1: way he's been able to accumulate assets and picks and

497
00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:30,560
Speaker 1: all kinds of different things. You got any cool behind

498
00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:33,280
Speaker 1: the doors closed door store you could tell us about Sam?

499
00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:37,240
Speaker 2: I got a few. So but yeah, sam my guy

500
00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:39,600
Speaker 2: Sam Nick looks Sam. It took.

501
00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:42,560
Speaker 3: The best thing that happened for st was samt for

502
00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:47,680
Speaker 3: Sam was that he lost Kadi and James. But when

503
00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:51,600
Speaker 3: he lost James, it made Sam change right and it

504
00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:54,560
Speaker 3: made him adapt. That was the best thing that happened

505
00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:58,480
Speaker 3: to Sam Preston, because remember when I got told KC

506
00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:01,320
Speaker 3: it was different. It was like Sam Preston was trying

507
00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:05,800
Speaker 3: to was running there the spurs way right. So like shit,

508
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:09,080
Speaker 3: I may say on Twitter at the time or social media,

509
00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:11,960
Speaker 3: I was getting called in the principal office stuff like that.

510
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:14,639
Speaker 3: But he has changed with time and I think that

511
00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:17,879
Speaker 3: helped him and now he got what he got. But

512
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:21,280
Speaker 3: behind the scene story, So I got in trouble. I

513
00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:25,040
Speaker 3: had got in trouble outside of nightclub during my ten

514
00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:29,679
Speaker 3: year class reunion in Houston. I got Yeah, I got

515
00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:33,000
Speaker 3: in a fight. So, you know, a ten year class reunion,

516
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,240
Speaker 3: you're feeling yourself. You know, you're doing all this ship

517
00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:39,040
Speaker 3: so that we're getting to fight. I don't know anything.

518
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:40,440
Speaker 3: I go to training camp.

519
00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:42,840
Speaker 2: We go to Turkey that night. Huh, you wasn't there

520
00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:47,240
Speaker 2: that night. Now me and Steve got we got.

521
00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:50,719
Speaker 3: To come up together. So I go to Turkey. I

522
00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:53,320
Speaker 3: go to Turkey. We go to Turkey for training camp.

523
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:56,960
Speaker 3: And when I get up, when we landed back in

524
00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:00,600
Speaker 3: the States, the security guy named flat and she come

525
00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:02,560
Speaker 3: up to me like, hey, look for you got off

526
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:04,840
Speaker 3: the plane. You got a warrant out for your arrest.

527
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:06,760
Speaker 3: And I'm like what So I didn't know the people

528
00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:09,879
Speaker 3: that went press charges or whatever. Anyway, go through the

529
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:13,280
Speaker 3: whole thing, go to court case, get this miss or whatever,

530
00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:16,000
Speaker 3: going into so I led. I was like top three

531
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:20,480
Speaker 3: in the league and technical files. At this point, Sam

532
00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:23,560
Speaker 3: think I got a real problem. Like he really think

533
00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:24,960
Speaker 3: I got a real problem.

534
00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 2: And so.

535
00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:30,080
Speaker 3: He comes to me after the season. He said, you

536
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 3: know I care about you. Right when I said yo,

537
00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:35,919
Speaker 3: he said, well, I need you to do something for me.

538
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 3: And I was like, well, what's up. He was like,

539
00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:44,919
Speaker 3: I know it's May, but in middle of June, starting

540
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:46,919
Speaker 3: in the middle of June, all the way up to

541
00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 3: the first week of September, I need you from eight

542
00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:55,960
Speaker 3: to five every Monday, do Friday to be in Kansas

543
00:26:55,960 --> 00:27:00,800
Speaker 3: City at this Angle Managements place.

544
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:01,720
Speaker 2: Right damn.

545
00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:03,560
Speaker 3: And I was like, man, I ain't got to do

546
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:05,800
Speaker 3: that shit, you know in my mind, right, that's what

547
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:08,960
Speaker 3: I'm saying. I ain't doing that man like. And he

548
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:13,359
Speaker 3: was like, but I'm serious. And the serious part was

549
00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:17,159
Speaker 3: was like, I ain't about to be tolerting your bullshit

550
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:20,919
Speaker 3: type serious, right. So I went and it was the

551
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 3: best thing that ever happened to me in my life

552
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:27,520
Speaker 3: because it got me to a mode of one how

553
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:30,439
Speaker 3: to control myself. Not like I had angle issues, but

554
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 3: I got a chance to meet a lot of great people.

555
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:34,120
Speaker 2: Yeah.

556
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:36,240
Speaker 3: And I got a chance to meet a lot of

557
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:38,440
Speaker 3: great people. And when I say great people, I got

558
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 3: a chance to meet doctors, anesthegiologists that were in there

559
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:45,199
Speaker 3: that were reported because you know, in the medical field,

560
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:48,440
Speaker 3: if you abuse your power, you get too many write ups.

561
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:50,960
Speaker 3: They see you there. And it was a nice facility,

562
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,399
Speaker 3: but it helped me out in so many ways. And

563
00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 3: I remember when I came back, I walked in the

564
00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:59,639
Speaker 3: saund office and he just started crying and I was like,

565
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:04,840
Speaker 3: press you good. He was like, man, that was a

566
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 3: test because if you wouldn't have done it. I was

567
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 3: gonna trade your ass and I didn't really want to,

568
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 3: and you did it. That showed me that you committed,

569
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,159
Speaker 3: that you really care about how I feel about you.

570
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 2: And right there was like a real moment. That's beautiful. Sam.

571
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:20,880
Speaker 2: Sam learned from the best.

572
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 4: He was a video guy when I was in San

573
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 4: Antonio and I said I congratulated him on Instagram when

574
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:28,200
Speaker 4: they won the championship and he's sading me alone mentions

575
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:30,399
Speaker 4: about how a lot of people didn't respect him when

576
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 4: he was coming up with the Spurs. But I always

577
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:34,040
Speaker 4: gave me respect and I always talked to him. So

578
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:35,920
Speaker 4: I'm happy that he having a success. He hasn't got

579
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,720
Speaker 4: me too. Look, people don't know people see that. You

580
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:41,480
Speaker 4: know the clean cut Sam on TV, Sam, I'm a

581
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 4: dog now.

582
00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 2: He wanted to win.

583
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 3: He got a competitive nature about him behind the scenes.

584
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 1: So yeah, we got anything over there for hot takes

585
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 1: from the threads thrown. Who got a hot take for us?

586
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 1: Better not be no bullshit.

587
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 6: Hi, I'm Latoy from Girl Talk Sports community for women

588
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 6: who love sports. Find me on threads at.

589
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:07,920
Speaker 7: Girls Shout Out the Ladies Shout Out.

590
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 6: Find me on threads at girl Underscore talks underscore sports.

591
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 7: So I'm a whole.

592
00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 6: Immigrant, and my hot take is Team World is going

593
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 6: to dominate the NBA All Star.

594
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 2: I'm gonna let you take that first part. I actually

595
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 2: agree with me too. You're right, all right?

596
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 3: How'm like, should I actually agree with I'm like, I

597
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 3: get to I was thinking about this the other day.

598
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 2: I'm like, they starting vibe is Yoki, Jannis Luca Sga

599
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:42,960
Speaker 2: with me. I actually agree, And there you go. You

600
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:49,640
Speaker 2: won your hot take. Give it up for a real

601
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 2: quick Yeah.

602
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:58,120
Speaker 8: What's up, guys, I'm Victoria a Ka baby b. My

603
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,760
Speaker 8: hot take is, do you I think that the league

604
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,680
Speaker 8: is just no longer taking pride in defense because I

605
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 8: feel like every night someone scoring fifty, sixty, seventy and

606
00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:09,040
Speaker 8: we're celebrating it.

607
00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:10,640
Speaker 7: But I feel like we're forgetting a.

608
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:12,720
Speaker 8: Whole other half of the team, Like you don't see

609
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 8: a two thousand and four Pistons vibe out here anymore,

610
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:17,240
Speaker 8: or defense in general.

611
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 2: Well, I answered that I know what basketball I agree.

612
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 4: I agree defense is definitely taking a step back in basketball,

613
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 4: more guys are worried about what the game can do

614
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:29,959
Speaker 4: for him instead of actually loving the game. You see

615
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 4: so many guys scoring thirty points and all this stuff. Yeah,

616
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 4: these guys are very talented. But the competitive nature of

617
00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 4: stopping your guy, studying SKYT reports and knowing what your

618
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:41,680
Speaker 4: guy like to do, Like I know I wouldn't I

619
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 4: probably wouldn't stop SHYT, but I know he wouldn't drive

620
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 4: left and should have step back the same shot all

621
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:48,959
Speaker 4: game on me. I would force him to do something different,

622
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:51,160
Speaker 4: and he might make them but you're gonna do something different.

623
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 4: They don't think like that, no more so you exactly right.

624
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:56,320
Speaker 4: Defense has definitely been lost in the game today.

625
00:30:56,560 --> 00:30:59,600
Speaker 3: And I'm gonna say this, Adam Silvera just puts something

626
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:04,960
Speaker 3: out about like hearing the fans complaints about defense.

627
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 2: It's a real thing. It's a real thing. And you

628
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 2: know why.

629
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:11,840
Speaker 3: One part that people are not realizing sports betting is

630
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 3: here and every motherfucker in the world bet on sports.

631
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:20,720
Speaker 3: Even my great auntie called me and I didn't even

632
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 3: know her as what like to put in a property

633
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 3: real talk. And so what I'm saying is when you

634
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:30,160
Speaker 3: betting on sports that actually make you watch the game

635
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:34,080
Speaker 3: even closer, Like right, if your money is tied in

636
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 3: this and you waiting on one game and you locked.

637
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 2: In and it could be. It could it's your part a.

638
00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 3: It could be the Pacers and Hawks, no disrespect, I'm

639
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:47,480
Speaker 3: just talking about this year. It could be that they're

640
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 3: gonna watch it. So I'm with that, and I'm also

641
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 3: with and y'all tell me how y'all feel. Man, I'm

642
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 3: tired of all this two three zone one two two man.

643
00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 3: They should take that out of them. It should be straight.

644
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 2: Man, the man man.

645
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:01,920
Speaker 3: And this is not what I'm not with that in

646
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 3: the NBA. I think that is handicap and the gimmick.

647
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 1: It's a gimmick unless people off the hook. But also

648
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 1: think too. The one thing I do like because I'm

649
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 1: obviously I played defense for a living.

650
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 2: That was my thing.

651
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 1: But I feel like in the playoffs they allow them

652
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Speaker 1: to play a little bit more defense. So to me,

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Speaker 1: that's kind of my only like. Okay, but yeah, I

654
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Speaker 1: have completely agree. During the season is we used to

655
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 1: call it brother in law defense. You score, I score,

656
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 1: you let me score, I let you score. We just

657
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 1: didn't come up in that ear so we don't understand it.

658
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:29,480
Speaker 1: But also at the same time to the credited game,

659
00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 1: the game has grown because of all the scoring and

660
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 1: all the highlights you see, So it's kind of a

661
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 1: double edged sword. But I mean, I think to perks point,

662
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 1: the commissioner understands that it understands what the fans want

663
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 1: to see the peers want to see.

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Speaker 2: So hopefully we'll get some.

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Speaker 1: Rule changes or allow more stuff to get us back

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Speaker 1: to more of a defensive battle.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for your question. My name is Swoop.

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Speaker 9: Blame Swoop to the exact. So how you guys doing so,

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00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 9: proud of you all, seriously and congratulations on everything. My

670
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 9: high take is, so I'm from Cleveland.

671
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 2: Ohio, born and raised.

672
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Speaker 9: And honestly, you know, Shador coming to this city literally

673
00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:14,719
Speaker 9: feels like when Bron arrived. There's a diff I mean,

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Speaker 9: if you ever been to Cleveland, you know it's cold,

675
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 9: it's gray, but the energy that's there now feels like

676
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 9: when Bron entered the city. The economy feels different. People

677
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 9: are building things and you know, want to bring companies there.

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Speaker 9: My hot take is that the Cleveland Browns would be

679
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Speaker 9: Super Bowl champions within five years.

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Speaker 2: Not with that coaching staff.

681
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Speaker 3: I disagree with your hot take, but I want that hope.

682
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Speaker 3: Make sure y'all record it every single thing he just said,

683
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 3: because for all the people that gave me shit about

684
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 3: what I said about him being the most powerful black man,

685
00:33:55,680 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 3: powerful athlete in sports. Right now, it's certain athletes that

686
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 3: changed the economy. Right we saw Yannis in Milwaukee. He

687
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 3: changed the economy.

688
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Speaker 2: He's going to New York, by the way, any.

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Speaker 3: I mean, if he stopped being a coward. You know,

690
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:15,279
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, and I respect you, honest, but man

691
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:18,359
Speaker 3: like bro, just say you want out, Bro, you want out,

692
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:21,719
Speaker 3: and it's okay. Guess what, It's okay, and no one

693
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 3: should be mad. He's gave everything and more to that city.

694
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 3: But just saying that's not with this roller coaster. But

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Speaker 3: I disagree with the hot tape. I agree with you.

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Speaker 2: I agree.

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Speaker 4: I think if they get rid of the coach staff,

698
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:37,840
Speaker 4: a lot has to happen.

699
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:39,759
Speaker 2: Though a lot has to happen for them to win

700
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Speaker 2: it in five years.

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Speaker 4: They got to get rid of the coach and actually

702
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:45,440
Speaker 4: give Shadua the keys. Whay, he's not looking over his shoulder.

703
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 4: If a couple of things like that happened, get another

704
00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:49,920
Speaker 4: receiver in there, I think they can because that defense

705
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:50,520
Speaker 4: is good enough.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think it's management's job to put

707
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:55,920
Speaker 1: putting the pieces around him, they already got a good defense.

708
00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 1: And again to Stax's point, he's not having the second

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Speaker 1: guess himself and look a over his shoulder. I think

710
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 1: he's it's only been three games and we're not saying

711
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 1: he's a savior, but he's the best thing they have

712
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:08,280
Speaker 1: for sure. And to Perks point, this guy moves the needles,

713
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:10,719
Speaker 1: so we obviously wish him the best.

714
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:14,719
Speaker 3: So like this whole, this whole media thing, right, there's

715
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:18,759
Speaker 3: so many areas going in, there, so many beefs inside

716
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 3: of this media. I gotta get youall input on this

717
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:25,640
Speaker 3: and how y'all feel about certain situations because we hain't

718
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:27,520
Speaker 3: got a chance to chop it up in a minute

719
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 3: Like I see the k Morton dramond I'm completely on

720
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:35,600
Speaker 3: Keny on Morte side right, like real talk, because I

721
00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:38,960
Speaker 3: feel where he's coming from. You know, it's certain language

722
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 3: that shouldn't be used when you talk about guys that

723
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 3: made it to the NBA, right, I feel like anytime

724
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:47,440
Speaker 3: you made it, you shouldn't be it shouldn't be called

725
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:51,239
Speaker 3: you shouldn't be called the underachiever or a bus or

726
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:52,400
Speaker 3: whatever that is.

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00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 2: If you made it, you made it right. But I

728
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:56,879
Speaker 2: want to know, Like, it's so.

729
00:35:56,920 --> 00:36:00,320
Speaker 3: Many beefs going on this side of the media, media

730
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:03,400
Speaker 3: people beefing with media people. Man, how y'all feel about this?

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Speaker 4: Well, I'll start off for me, a lot of a

732
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:10,879
Speaker 4: lot of the stuff as well. With basketball players, that's

733
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 4: healthy because what basketball player, I don't think he was

734
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 4: better than others. Now, I come with receipts with mine,

735
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, in facts, so with feelings,

736
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:20,439
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. So a lot of people

737
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 4: say a lot of things, but they don't have no facts.

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Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, it's fun because

739
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 4: that's just like you in the gym and the guy

740
00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:27,719
Speaker 4: telling you I can beat you. I can know you can't,

741
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, So that that that's all fun.

742
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:32,800
Speaker 4: When it gets to the point where you're disrespecting people's families,

743
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:34,720
Speaker 4: when you're making it personally and not by the by

744
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 4: basketball and you're trying to take it elsewhere, that's when

745
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 4: it become a problem. But I think for the most part,

746
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 4: we have enough respect in our show and we show

747
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:44,279
Speaker 4: so much love that we don't ever have to get

748
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 4: to that point, you know what I'm saying, Because even

749
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:47,279
Speaker 4: when Nick was saying the things about me. The first

750
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:49,359
Speaker 4: thing I said, what it ain't no beef because it's

751
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:51,279
Speaker 4: certain people that can't compete with me, you know what

752
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:52,759
Speaker 4: I'm saying. And at the end of the day's levels

753
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:55,319
Speaker 4: to this. So but the competition to talk, the back

754
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:57,480
Speaker 4: and forth is all good. Long as the states, you

755
00:36:57,520 --> 00:36:59,280
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. Yeah, long as the state basketball.

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Speaker 1: What you say, Yeah, Perk, I've turned over a new leaf.

757
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:06,439
Speaker 1: So I don't have no beefs. I love everybody. Oh yeah,

758
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 1: and look, my am, this is my hos beef with

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00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:10,719
Speaker 1: either you know.

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00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:12,759
Speaker 2: But here's the thing.

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Speaker 3: This is my thing with everything from the network, the

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00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 3: platforms that I'm on, even with y'all. Like, the thing

763
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:23,920
Speaker 3: is is that we gotta start doing a better job

764
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,319
Speaker 3: of holding people account with.

765
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 2: Ship that bullshit they say.

766
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:33,120
Speaker 3: It's it's bullshit, they say, But let's not turn basketball

767
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:37,040
Speaker 3: in sports into TMZ and CNN. Like I don't want

768
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:41,320
Speaker 3: to keep hearing the fucking reportings on Chauncey Billups and

769
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:45,400
Speaker 3: Damon Jones and Terror ROSEI okay, it came out cool.

770
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:49,000
Speaker 3: Bet something else happened a month later than addressing But

771
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:50,440
Speaker 3: I don't want to care. I don't give a fuck

772
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 3: about no write ups. I don't want to hear no

773
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:55,279
Speaker 3: deep dives. Bill Simmons says something the other day that

774
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:58,759
Speaker 3: I came across with was like Bill Simmons said, like,

775
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:03,919
Speaker 3: you know the Hornets knew about the investigation, that's why

776
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 3: they traded. How you know like that speculation like that

777
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:11,279
Speaker 3: ain't covering the game of basketball. Man, that's like if

778
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:13,279
Speaker 3: you go go do that, mego work for you know

779
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:16,239
Speaker 3: what I'm saying, crime scenes is a homicide or some shit.

780
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:18,759
Speaker 2: It's getting ridiculous. Keep it spoiled though.

781
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:22,560
Speaker 1: For man, I just think to another and I said

782
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:25,560
Speaker 1: it the other day, anonymous sources, I'm not with anonymous sources.

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00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 2: Me.

784
00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:27,840
Speaker 1: You're gonna talk some shit, put your motherfucking name on it,

785
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:32,720
Speaker 1: anonymous sources of the across the board, sports life, whatever

786
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:34,919
Speaker 1: it is, and not like if you have something to say,

787
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 1: say it, you know, don't hide behind source anonymous sources.

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00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 2: That bothers me. I don't pat us on the back

789
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 2: of them.

790
00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:43,239
Speaker 4: But I'm glad we never dove into the meaning people

791
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 4: to make ourselves look better. That's one thing I show

792
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:47,840
Speaker 4: take pride or we give flowers, and too many people

793
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:50,680
Speaker 4: look forward today. If you demean somebody it makes you

794
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:52,880
Speaker 4: look better, That's definitely not the way success and I

795
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 4: hope we've been an example of that again, Perk.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate your time today. Man, thank you very much

797
00:38:57,719 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 1: giving up for Perk. Let's meet the man this behind Threads.

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Speaker 1: Let's welcome to the stage right now, Connor Hayes.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for being here.

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Speaker 1: So, Connor, you're the head of Threads and now it's

801
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:16,600
Speaker 1: been there for been doing that for about four months.

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00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:19,960
Speaker 1: How's that experience been, and take us back a little

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Speaker 1: bit of how the concept of Threads came about.

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00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:25,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was part of the team that built Threads

805
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:27,840
Speaker 5: originally and then kind of took a little detour and

806
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:28,399
Speaker 5: came back a.

807
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:28,960
Speaker 7: Few months ago.

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Speaker 5: But there's always just been this big demand, like ever

809
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 5: since the internet, you know, came out for people to

810
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:37,799
Speaker 5: take their interests online and talk about them with other

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Speaker 5: people and find other people that are as big of

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00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:42,960
Speaker 5: fanatics about whatever topic it is that they might be.

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Speaker 7: And so obviously there's been apps.

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Speaker 5: Reddit and Twitter and things like that in the past

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00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 5: that had done really well here, but we really saw

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Speaker 5: this opening as meta to compete in that space, and

817
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 5: so that was the early stages of Threads is how

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00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:56,319
Speaker 5: can we do this, do it in a little bit

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Speaker 5: of a different way, make it feel like it came

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Speaker 5: from Meta, came from Instagram. And it's been an awesome

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Speaker 5: couple of years ever since since we launched it. The

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Speaker 5: last four months have been great, though. The big thing

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Speaker 5: for us right now is focusing on these interest based communities,

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Speaker 5: basketball being a huge one of them, so that took

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Speaker 5: off organically.

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Speaker 7: In the very beginning.

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Speaker 5: Basketball and NBA discussion was always one of the first

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Speaker 5: things that people took to. I remember the weekend before

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Speaker 5: we launched, we let in a bunch of partners to

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Speaker 5: the app, and I had, like Mark Cuban, the Mavericks

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Speaker 5: had just signed Seth Curry, and Seth Curry signed up

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Speaker 5: and posted something and Mark Cuban.

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Speaker 7: Replied to him and I was like, all right, we

834
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Speaker 7: got one.

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Speaker 5: This is going to be good, you know when you

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Speaker 5: see people interacting like that. And for the last few

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Speaker 5: months we've been just trying to do more and more.

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Speaker 5: So we've added these podcast features, the NBA Threads community

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Speaker 5: and there's a lot more to come.

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Speaker 2: Love that.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations when you look around this room and see all

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Speaker 1: the threads creators in here, you're sitting up on the

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Speaker 1: stage talking about it, like, what's the first thing that

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00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:50,480
Speaker 1: comes to mind for you?

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Speaker 7: First thing comes to mind is like, how did this happen?

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Speaker 5: Because when you guys probably have can relate to this,

847
00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:01,440
Speaker 5: having built you know, your whole company. But when you

848
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:03,840
Speaker 5: start out, it's like a few people with an idea

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00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:06,400
Speaker 5: just kind of sitting around in a room with laptops

850
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 5: and you're like, what could we do? And you throw

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00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 5: out some big idea of you know, we could be

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00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:13,320
Speaker 5: the biggest in the space someday. But when it starts happening,

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00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:15,640
Speaker 5: and it starts happening faster than you expected to, it's

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Speaker 5: kind of surreal.

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Speaker 7: So appreciate you guys and everybody else we're coming out.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for having us.

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00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:27,160
Speaker 1: The NBA normally dominates social media. The NFL dominates cable. Obviously,

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00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:29,960
Speaker 1: the trend is cables kind of dying out. Where do

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00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:33,720
Speaker 1: you think threads fits into how fans interact with the game.

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Speaker 5: We really wanted to be this like second screen, you know,

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00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 5: whenever you're watching games live, where you can see what's

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Speaker 5: happening in real time. On the conversation about it, there's

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Speaker 5: been a few moments like that for me this year

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00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:48,920
Speaker 5: where things really clicked. When we've launched the NBA Threads community.

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Speaker 5: I don't know if you guys remember, it was like

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Speaker 5: the first week of the season when Wemby it was

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Speaker 5: like his first or second game, and everyone was like,

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Speaker 5: oh my god, what is happening right now? And I

869
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:00,440
Speaker 5: had threads up and was just refreshing, refreshing, freshing, and

870
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:02,640
Speaker 5: people are throwing clips in there and commentary and you

871
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:05,319
Speaker 5: see players and ex players starting to comment on it,

872
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 5: and his like MVP conversation kind of starts taking off.

873
00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:11,239
Speaker 7: Of course, he's missed some time, but so those are

874
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:13,399
Speaker 7: the moments where we feel like it's working.

875
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 5: And we want it to be much more like that

876
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:16,480
Speaker 5: the second screen when you're watching.

877
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 2: Some of that.

878
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 4: You're a big time Celtics fan, Yes, sir, the Celtics

879
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:21,680
Speaker 4: are surprising people this year.

880
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 2: You need my microphone.

881
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:27,520
Speaker 4: The Celtics are surprising people this year. Sound like Barry

882
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 4: White doing it. Do you think Tatum's coming back?

883
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:34,799
Speaker 5: I'm not that surprised, but because I'll tell you what,

884
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:37,800
Speaker 5: because I think Joe Mizula is just an absolute maniac.

885
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:41,200
Speaker 5: The Yeah, the third team in the East, right now

886
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:43,399
Speaker 5: I keep going around telling people that were the third

887
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:44,839
Speaker 5: team in the East, and we were ninth like five

888
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 5: days ago, so I have to calm.

889
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Speaker 2: Down a little bit.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, I mean, they have a bunch of really

891
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:51,360
Speaker 5: good players, they have a good system. I don't know

892
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Speaker 5: if they're a championship team without Jason Tatum, but we'll see.

893
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Speaker 1: Jayden Brown's been playing really well. Obviously what he thought

894
00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:00,000
Speaker 1: about his play, because there's kind of always been normally

895
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:02,319
Speaker 1: social media back and forth like is he a one

896
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:04,319
Speaker 1: A or is he a one B? I think he's

897
00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:06,960
Speaker 1: obviously stepped in the role and has great numbers this year.

898
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Speaker 1: What do you think about his play this year?

899
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:09,600
Speaker 7: It's been awesome.

900
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Speaker 5: I Mean the thing about those guys, which I really

901
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:14,720
Speaker 5: do believe and actually curious if you have any insider

902
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:16,839
Speaker 5: information because I'm just making this up, is that they

903
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 5: don't seem like they've ever cared about that one A

904
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 5: one B conversation. It's just always been a partnership of like,

905
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:26,400
Speaker 5: let's go win some basketball games. So I'm you know,

906
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:29,960
Speaker 5: I think in any other situation you would you there

907
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:32,360
Speaker 5: would be a conversation of like is this threatening to

908
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:34,759
Speaker 5: Jason Tatum? But nobody's saying that because it's clear that

909
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:35,840
Speaker 5: they love playing together.

910
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:38,120
Speaker 7: But yeah, Jalen's been great. I think the big thing

911
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 7: has just been on the defensive side of the ball too.

912
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 5: This dude, Jordan Walsh has been like insane and it's

913
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Speaker 5: setting up a bunch of transition that works for him.

914
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Speaker 5: But the craziest thing that I was checking out recently

915
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Speaker 5: is they are like one of the slowest teams in

916
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Speaker 5: the league on pace, but one of the top for

917
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:54,680
Speaker 5: three pointers made, which just shows that they're committed to

918
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:56,799
Speaker 5: the three and they're working it into half court and

919
00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 5: so it seems.

920
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Speaker 7: Like that's working.

921
00:43:58,800 --> 00:43:58,960
Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: What are your thoughts, Obviously being a Celtics fan, Jason

923
00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:04,799
Speaker 1: Tatum is a head of schedule. If you were the

924
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 1: GM or the person who made decisions over there, maybe

925
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:11,360
Speaker 1: the president, would you bring him back next year or

926
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:14,400
Speaker 1: do you think that he needs to relax and wait

927
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 1: and wait till next season.

928
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 5: I mean, like I want to say, get him back tomorrow.

929
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Speaker 7: I don't know.

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00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:23,960
Speaker 5: I feel like they'll figure that out. But there was

931
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Speaker 5: a video of him today doing one on one drills.

932
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Speaker 5: I mean, that's different than doing a seven game playoff series,

933
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:32,480
Speaker 5: of course, but I don't know. I feel like he

934
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:34,360
Speaker 5: will come back this year. I think it's kind of

935
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:36,440
Speaker 5: pointing in that direction. My sense is that if they

936
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:39,719
Speaker 5: were five and fifteen right now, he probably wouldn't, but

937
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:42,160
Speaker 5: the fact that they're overperforming seems like he probably will.

938
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Speaker 4: It is always they always make that decision depending on

939
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:46,919
Speaker 4: how the team is coming up after All Star Break.

940
00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:49,239
Speaker 2: They're gonna make the same way with Kyrie as well.

941
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:52,960
Speaker 4: Good thing about your team, Your star player got his

942
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:54,360
Speaker 4: haircut situation together.

943
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:57,040
Speaker 2: That was kind of rough for men.

944
00:44:57,120 --> 00:45:01,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I definitely saw some He is getting crazy.

945
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Speaker 4: Shout out Jaylen Brown, who wins this best of seven

946
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:11,960
Speaker 4: eighty six Celtics Bird McHale Parish as Dennis Johnson are

947
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 4: the two thousand and eight Celtics KG Paul Rondo, Ray

948
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Speaker 4: and perk.

949
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:17,120
Speaker 2: Oh Wait easy.

950
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:20,440
Speaker 7: Who's guarding Kevin Garnett on that team?

951
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:27,720
Speaker 2: Nobody? No, I agree. I don't think them were fast enough. Parish,

952
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:28,560
Speaker 2: I guess.

953
00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:31,320
Speaker 7: I guess the Chief might might give him some trouble.

954
00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:34,640
Speaker 2: I think the advantage would be at point guard Rondo

955
00:45:34,719 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 2: for me.

956
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:38,000
Speaker 5: Yes, Ken Kendrick Perkins one time put on threads. Uh

957
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:40,919
Speaker 5: you know, it was like, who who's your all time

958
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:43,040
Speaker 5: starting five or something like that, and my response was.

959
00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:47,800
Speaker 1: Rondo, Rondo, He's a monster.

960
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:50,120
Speaker 2: What's your favorite memory of the Celtics.

961
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:51,120
Speaker 7: Fan summer twenty twenty four.

962
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:53,000
Speaker 5: I got to go to Game five when they won

963
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:55,160
Speaker 5: the championship against Dallas, which was awesome.

964
00:45:56,200 --> 00:45:59,280
Speaker 7: I've never been in a sports moment.

965
00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:03,799
Speaker 5: The Peyton Pritchard end of the first half, like three

966
00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:05,040
Speaker 5: quarter court shot.

967
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:06,120
Speaker 7: I thought I was gonna go deaf.

968
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:08,360
Speaker 5: My wife was there with me and we were like,

969
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:10,680
Speaker 5: just I have a photo of her cheering, and the

970
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:13,600
Speaker 5: security guard is like, like, you're not supposed to do

971
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:15,160
Speaker 5: that when you're working security at the game.

972
00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:17,120
Speaker 7: But the whole arena went crazy. It was great.

973
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 2: I love that.

974
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 1: I heard you have announcement, well, some new features in

975
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:21,800
Speaker 1: the basketball community.

976
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:24,400
Speaker 2: You want to Yeah, so this is so.

977
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:26,719
Speaker 5: We have the NBA Threads community. You can join and

978
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:29,279
Speaker 5: tag your posts into it. It's been going really well

979
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:32,200
Speaker 5: so far. Upcoming in the next week or so, we're

980
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 5: going to be rolling out a couple of things to

981
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 5: recognize people that are in those communities. One of them

982
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 5: is actually giving people like badges and titles when they're

983
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 5: good at starting conversations, when they're like a top contributor

984
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:44,919
Speaker 5: to the community things like that, so they can show

985
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:46,880
Speaker 5: that off. And the other, which I think is really important,

986
00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:49,480
Speaker 5: is being able to add your favorite team as flair,

987
00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 5: because nothing's worth worse on the Internet than when you're

988
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:55,320
Speaker 5: like arguing with someone and they're like, Scottie Barnes is

989
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:57,640
Speaker 5: a top five player and they don't have the Raptors flair.

990
00:46:57,680 --> 00:46:58,840
Speaker 7: You're like, what is their bias?

991
00:46:58,880 --> 00:46:59,080
Speaker 2: You know?

992
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:01,719
Speaker 5: So now we'll have the Raptors flare next to it

993
00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:03,480
Speaker 5: and you can understand who you're dealing with.

994
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:07,840
Speaker 1: What's your biggest advice for creators on how best to

995
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:09,160
Speaker 1: utilize threads?

996
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:11,360
Speaker 5: The number one thing I always say when people are

997
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 5: getting started is to just focus on replying and showing

998
00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 5: people that you're there. A lot of folks, you guys

999
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:19,840
Speaker 5: probably have experienced this a bit too, get on the

1000
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:23,760
Speaker 5: platform and they're used to creating media content, their video

1001
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:26,040
Speaker 5: content creators or their podcast content creators, and they have

1002
00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:27,400
Speaker 5: a keyboard in front of them and they're like, I

1003
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:29,600
Speaker 5: don't know what to say, But if you scroll your

1004
00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:32,200
Speaker 5: feed for like, you know, five, ten, fifteen minutes, you're

1005
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:34,200
Speaker 5: gonna see some things that you have an opinion on

1006
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:36,680
Speaker 5: and starting to weigh on those and reply to people.

1007
00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:38,879
Speaker 5: We tend to show that off to folks that are

1008
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:40,919
Speaker 5: in the app and so then they might not even

1009
00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:43,680
Speaker 5: follow you, but they're saying, you know, Kendrick Perkins asked

1010
00:47:43,680 --> 00:47:46,000
Speaker 5: for your top five players. If you responded with your

1011
00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:48,000
Speaker 5: take right now, it starts going out to everybody and

1012
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:49,319
Speaker 5: you can build an audience that way.

1013
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:54,360
Speaker 2: Main down a question, mj Kobe, Brawn, Rank.

1014
00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:55,920
Speaker 7: Them right now?

1015
00:47:56,680 --> 00:47:59,560
Speaker 2: Ran? Yeah? Done, Ron, right now? Rank them?

1016
00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:00,600
Speaker 6: No?

1017
00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:03,400
Speaker 7: I mean I think Michael Jordan is the best player.

1018
00:48:03,520 --> 00:48:05,200
Speaker 2: Ever, I don't.

1019
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:07,320
Speaker 7: I don't even know why that's a debate.

1020
00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:14,320
Speaker 4: I'm proud of you, was saying, yeah.

1021
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:14,040
Speaker 1: And now the next two positions are the horror positions?

1022
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:16,680
Speaker 1: Who do you have behind him?

1023
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:19,280
Speaker 7: Number two? Ever? Probably Bill Russell?

1024
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:21,080
Speaker 2: Oh? You put Bill Russell in there? Is that some

1025
00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:21,880
Speaker 2: Celtics bias?

1026
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:27,320
Speaker 1: Maybe, Oh, Lebron? Usually they have two Hunhs or Kobe.

1027
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:29,120
Speaker 1: I mean, it just kind of just depends.

1028
00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:31,080
Speaker 7: I think your top five is.

1029
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 5: I'll say it in no particular order, Jordan, Russell, Lebron, Kobe.

1030
00:48:39,719 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 5: Some people have Will I wouldn't put him in there,

1031
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:43,600
Speaker 5: and then I'd probably have Magic or Bird.

1032
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:46,720
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, it's pretty solid. Rounded out five.

1033
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:48,480
Speaker 7: I have a surprise for you.

1034
00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:52,920
Speaker 5: This is my original two thousand and eight championship T

1035
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:56,440
Speaker 5: shirt and on it they did him very dirty on there,

1036
00:48:57,440 --> 00:48:59,080
Speaker 5: and I want, I want everyone.

1037
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Speaker 7: Can you find him? It's hard to even know which one.

1038
00:49:03,560 --> 00:49:04,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.

1039
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:10,960
Speaker 1: You got a strong ass face and that's slim perk

1040
00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:14,719
Speaker 1: right there. Oh is that what it is?

1041
00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:19,439
Speaker 2: You gotta come see this park?

1042
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:22,400
Speaker 7: Come up, man, I don't know if I don't know

1043
00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:23,880
Speaker 7: if the artists signed this, but I.

1044
00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 1: Mean, what are the chances that you're a huge Celtics fan?

1045
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:29,160
Speaker 1: And then we just happened to grab a championship center

1046
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:30,320
Speaker 1: from the eight team.

1047
00:49:30,239 --> 00:49:31,600
Speaker 7: The greatest franchise in sports.

1048
00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:32,120
Speaker 2: So there you go.

1049
00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:32,759
Speaker 7: Thanks for coming.

1050
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:34,799
Speaker 1: And again we really want to thank the whole Meta

1051
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:37,480
Speaker 1: team for making this, putting this together, our team for

1052
00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:38,439
Speaker 1: collabing with them.

1053
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Speaker 2: Threads. We appreciate you guys.

1054
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Speaker 1: We look forward to continue to do a great business

1055
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:43,880
Speaker 1: with you guys, all the Hot Take people.

1056
00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:44,879
Speaker 2: We appreciate you guys.

1057
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Speaker 1: And like I said, I mean creators, let's get together, man,

1058
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Speaker 1: let's work up.

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Speaker 2: Let's make it