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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk some basketball. So the Lakers. I

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Speaker 1: talked a lot after Game two, before Game two even

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Speaker 1: that I expected them to bring a lack of daisical

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Speaker 1: And I thought, even in my rewatch going back to

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Speaker 1: And it's been like that, literally NonStop since the twenty

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Speaker 1: it's probably helpful for those two teams that Milwaukee has

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Speaker 1: But I'm not I remain literally zero percent worried about

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Speaker 1: Milwaukee last, but not least. And I'm only gonna talk

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Speaker 1: about this for a second because I didn't actually watch

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Speaker 1: much of this game. But the Sixers Joel Embiid, in

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Speaker 1: his knee injury again played through it. My guess is

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Speaker 1: as we saw against Miami last year, if he misses

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Speaker 1: the first two games and they dig themselves into two

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Speaker 1: playing against a team like Boston. If it was anybody

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Speaker 1: else in that second round series, that feel a little

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Speaker 1: go in Game one, they're not winning. It's really that simple.

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Speaker 1: But the most encouraging thing to come out of that

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Speaker 1: about how Philly before the Phoenix trade I thought had

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Speaker 1: All right, guys, that is all I have for tonight.

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Speaker 1: We are going live after Warriors Kings Game four tomorrow

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Speaker 1: with Colin Cowhard, so keep an eye on the feeds

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Speaker 1: for that, and then we'll be back Monday morning breaking

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Speaker 1: down the rest of the games from Sunday. As always,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys for rocking with us for the

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Speaker 1: super successful first week that we had, and I will

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Speaker 1: see you guys tomorrow. The volume