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Speaker 1: We were just talking about the powerballs at five hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty million dollars and then the Mega millions whatever

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Speaker 1: that is is is at a big number. Two is

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Speaker 1: at seven hundred million seasons seven hundred and fifty right now,

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Speaker 1: but it could go up by the time it gets

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Speaker 1: to mega millions is on Friday, and sometimes when they're

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Speaker 1: big like that, they tend to keep jumping up so

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Speaker 1: that one could get to eight hundred by Friday. I'm

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Speaker 1: always curious about when you jump in on something like this.

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Speaker 1: You normally don't do it, but at what point do

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Speaker 1: you say, oh, Now it's gotten to a point where

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Speaker 1: I'll play the lottery here. Usually when the news starts

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Speaker 1: covering it, that's when I go, all right, I'll put

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Speaker 1: in five bucks. So I think what we're gonna do

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Speaker 1: is do a group effort here. If we win, we

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Speaker 1: all win. Is everybody comfortable with that? Yeah? Everybody put

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Speaker 1: in five bucks each for both of these drawings you have, Paul,

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Speaker 1: So let's say it was eight hundred million after taxes.

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Speaker 1: The lump sum would be about doing my math about

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Speaker 1: five hundred million. Let's say there's twelve of us here.

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Speaker 1: That's not enough. Is that like forty five million a

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Speaker 1: person or something like that. Each person walks with forty

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Speaker 1: five million? Yeah, second thought, I don't know after so

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Speaker 1: you'll you'll get it right now it's at seven hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty, but when you take the cash option, it

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Speaker 1: immediately goes down to five fifty. Well, we'll round up

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Speaker 1: five hundred and fifty one million, and then you're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to pay taxes out of that, which is still

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Speaker 1: coming out to let me check my calculations. A hell

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Speaker 1: of a lot of money confirmed. Okay, If when we win,

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Speaker 1: how many people continue? Who shows up the next day

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Speaker 1: that we have a show. Does anybody not show up

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Speaker 1: of this group right here the Danets seton? Do you

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Speaker 1: show up the next day? Yeah? Yeah, okay, Paulie, I

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Speaker 1: think everybody shows up the next day. I'm worried about

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Speaker 1: the Monday of the following week when you when it

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Speaker 1: soaks in the check players. Yeah, I think everyone's showing

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Speaker 1: up to gloat the day of Okay, I have what

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Speaker 1: did we say, twelve people? I have the twelve of

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Speaker 1: us getting about twenty eight million apiece. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: guess that's enough. I don't know you're okay with that fun.

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Speaker 1: I just want to make sure that I throw that

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Speaker 1: out there. Cash up front, right, cash up front? Cash

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Speaker 1: up front. By the way, do you know who the

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Speaker 1: leading candidate is, according to Vegas, to be the next

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Speaker 1: head coach of the Jetsug Peterson? Doug Peterson. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if he's going to get a promotion like he

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Speaker 1: he got fired by the Eagles and then he made

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Speaker 1: to get a promotion. He gets the coach the Jets.

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Speaker 1: This according to the oddsmakers at sports line, h Doug

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Speaker 1: Peterson is the favorite. Brandon Staley. Who's Brandon Staley with mclovin.

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Speaker 1: Ram's defensive coordination. Okay, oh that's right, that's right, Eric

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Speaker 1: b Enemy and then Arthur Smith, Brian Dable, and Robert Sala,

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Speaker 1: who is having his second interview. He's the defensive coordinate

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Speaker 1: with the forty nine ers. But just some of the

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Speaker 1: names out there, Yes, mclovin, I saw a tweet and

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Speaker 1: you can't tell that Arthur Smith is really hot. And

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Speaker 1: I just have trout with the name is So it's

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Speaker 1: a little like DeVante Smith, Like can you get excited

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Speaker 1: about someone named Arthur Smith is your next coach? It

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Speaker 1: sounds like an owner. Yeah, Like I always think Arthur Smith.

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Speaker 1: I always think Arthur Blank and we're gonna hire Arthur Smith. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was my pole question. If I had to tell

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Speaker 1: have a hot coordinator, a former head coach, or a

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Speaker 1: is it all individual? Run that by me again. You

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Speaker 1: What if it was like Lincoln Riley, Like, I'm curious

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Speaker 1: about that. It's it's unproven. We know what Doug Peterson

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Speaker 1: said it often there are certain coordinators who aren't head coaches.

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Speaker 1: They shouldn't be head coaches. We tend to think, well,

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Speaker 1: And I think we've run into situations teams have where

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Speaker 1: they go, a great offense coordinator, okay, but that's what

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Speaker 1: he does. A pitching coach is a great pitching coach.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't mean he can be a great manager. And

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Speaker 1: you find that in all of these sports where you go, man,

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Speaker 1: Is he good as a head coach? And that's not

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Speaker 1: always the case. But we do tend to kind of

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Speaker 1: be a great head coach. I don't know, because being

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Speaker 1: a head coach. That's where're you oversee everything. You have

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Speaker 1: to go to those press conferences every day. You have

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Speaker 1: You have to make tough decisions. You have to hire

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Speaker 1: There's free agency, and there's so much involved in that.

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Speaker 1: And it's not just Hey, if I'm a defensive coordinator,

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Speaker 1: I take what you give me. I do the best

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Speaker 1: with what I have. Like Brian Schottenheimer got fired as

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Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator of the Seattle Seahawks. Now, if I

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Speaker 1: who is he? And then that can't be the case

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Speaker 1: because you got russ Wilson is cooking the last two years,

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Speaker 1: maybe the last three years. Russell Wilson has cooked in

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Speaker 1: season not so much. He has not had an MVP

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Speaker 1: vote in his career, but through weeks one through nine,

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Speaker 1: team averaged thirty four points a game. Rest of the

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Speaker 1: rest of the season, three twenty four Russ's QBR eighty

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Speaker 1: one weeks one through nine, sixty two point five the

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Speaker 1: rest of the season. As much as I would say

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Speaker 1: I understand what Pete Carroll's doing and it was the

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Speaker 1: right call, it wasn't the right call. Now there's a

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Speaker 1: philosophical difference here, and that is I think Pete Carroll

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Speaker 1: second half of the season. He did not. Now you

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Speaker 1: can say well, offensive line or whatever your reasoning is,

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Speaker 1: keep in mind, Tyler Lockett and DK Metcalf had two

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Speaker 1: of the greatest seasons in Seattle receiving history. This is

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Speaker 1: the legion of Boom. Was so great that you didn't

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Speaker 1: ask the offense to do as much. But if you say,

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Speaker 1: in the Seahawks, starting with Russell Wilson, didn't do a

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Speaker 1: I don't think he had I put the blame. I

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Speaker 1: start with him now, play calling or philosophy or whatever

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Speaker 1: those things are. Russell Wilson, as much as we love Russ,

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Speaker 1: he was the MVP the first half of the season,

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Speaker 1: or at least through the first six or seven games.

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Speaker 1: But you got to be consistent from start to finish,

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Speaker 1: and he was none. But they decided that they were

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Speaker 1: going to And this is a surprising move, I think

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Speaker 1: to you know, those folks around the NFL. Brian Schottenheimer's

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Speaker 1: out as the offensive coordinator after three seasons. Of course,

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Speaker 1: he was labeled a fantastic person and coach. On the

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Speaker 1: way out the door, I always wonder, you know, they

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Speaker 1: I always wonder, well, why do you say those things?

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Speaker 1: When I was inside the door? It's why out the

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Speaker 1: door and we're gonna miss you, we love you. You're

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Speaker 1: a great team player. And then you're like, well, why

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Speaker 1: am I walking out the door here? Yeah? Puk, he

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Speaker 1: will do great things in his future. Why does he

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Speaker 1: do great things here? And you keep him? He's gonna

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Speaker 1: do great things. Let's let's hold out of that guy.

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Speaker 1: Oh boy. So Schottenheimer's run in Seattle, these overs, their

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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator. What else do we have? The Bears are

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Speaker 1: probably maybe do a two year deal. I would keep

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Speaker 1: either long term or nothing, you know, maybe a franchise him.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Just Shaun Watson is sort of status quo.

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Speaker 1: b Enemy, is that the guy to hire? What input

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Speaker 1: sure what's going to happen with that. The NBA is

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Speaker 1: trying to do hotel bubbles. By the way, what happened

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Speaker 1: But you have a short offseason. It doesn't look like

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Speaker 1: during games. Guys weren't necessarily going to take games off

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Speaker 1: as much as during the game, they might not play

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Speaker 1: as many minutes. Lebron James has played in every game.

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Speaker 1: He is playing a career low thirty two minutes. The record.

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Speaker 1: Lakers have the best record in the NBA not skipping games,

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Speaker 1: but it feels like there is load management that's going

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Speaker 1: on during a game, and then you have the Kyrie

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Speaker 1: Irving situation. Chris Mannocks from Sports Illustrated will join us

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Speaker 1: just see if there's any thought on where the nets, Like,

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Speaker 1: are they tiptoeing around this? You know the Rockets let

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Speaker 1: me play with. James Harden had to say. This felt

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Speaker 1: like this was, Hey, I'm out the door, last person,

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Speaker 1: is hardened after last night's lost for the Lakers, which

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Speaker 1: is not good at us. The chemistry, talent, it's just everything.

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Speaker 1: And it was clear, like I said, dis last games,

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Speaker 1: I love the city. I literally done everything that I can.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the situation is crazy to go. It's something

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Speaker 1: that I don't think you should. Okay, you played nine games.

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Speaker 1: How about you give the chemistry a little time here?

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Speaker 1: You've added what three or four new players here, including

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Speaker 1: Boogie Cousins and John Wallen Christian Wood. Can we give

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Speaker 1: it a little bit of time here? And really? Have

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Speaker 1: you done everything you can do this season? James? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Set You ever been somewhere though, or like in a

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Speaker 1: dive into the issues here. Let me start with James Harden.

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Speaker 1: Based off his comments last night, it almost felt like

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Speaker 1: an exit interview there that hey, I've done everything I

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Speaker 1: can do and this is a mess, and hey see

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Speaker 1: you later. Where do the rockets go from here? I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think you first have to put a point out

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Speaker 1: that James Harden made the mess and he created this

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Speaker 1: situation that the Rockets are in right now. Now, maybe

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Speaker 1: there would have been growing pains regardless if you trade

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Speaker 1: for a starting point guard in John Wall who doesn't

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Speaker 1: play the first couple of games, you're gonna have to

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Speaker 1: acclimate to a new backcourt mate. Christen Wood is a

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Speaker 1: new player in that mix. But it's extremely clear that

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Speaker 1: James Harden and his unwillingness to buy in, as Wall

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Speaker 1: alluded to last night, is a part of this problem.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you see him, I mean NBA TV Dan

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Speaker 1: is making cracks at his way, like you know, you've

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Speaker 1: kind of gone to a different level when NBA TV

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Speaker 1: feels comfortable taking shots at your physique. So that's a

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Speaker 1: big part of it as well. Now you ask where

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Speaker 1: the Rockets go from here. My understanding in the last

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Speaker 1: couple of days still is that the Rockets are determined

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Speaker 1: to be patient with this because they believe that the

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Speaker 1: longer they play this thing out, the more teams will

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Speaker 1: materialize as prospective suitors, and that will allow them to

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Speaker 1: get into a bidding war for James Harden. They could

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Speaker 1: pull a trigger on a deal for Harden right now.

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Speaker 1: There are multiple offers that are on the table for him,

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Speaker 1: but they believe that they can maximize his value by

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Speaker 1: holding on to him throughout January into February and towards

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Speaker 1: that March deadline. I think they've only played nine games,

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Speaker 1: and that's what I don't understand. He's got new faces

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Speaker 1: in there, and I don't know why he doesn't want

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Speaker 1: to give it unless he just says, look, I love

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Speaker 1: the city of Houston and the strip clubs, but I

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Speaker 1: don't want to play for the Rockets. Get me out

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Speaker 1: of here. Even though he's not giving this a chance

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Speaker 1: with John Wall and Boogee cousins in Christian Wood, which

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Speaker 1: to me is surprising because you would have thought James

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Speaker 1: Harden would at least say, let me see what we have.

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Speaker 1: Maybe we have something unique here different here. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: These guys have been quality players. That's what's a little

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Speaker 1: bit surprising is he's basically, you know, pulling up stakes

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Speaker 1: after nine games. No, I agree, I would have given

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Speaker 1: John Wall half a chance because you know, we talk

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Speaker 1: a lot about Kevin Durant's recovery from achilles surgery. John

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Speaker 1: Wall has been just as good, I mean, at least

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Speaker 1: as far as his recovery goes, and looks like he's

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Speaker 1: bounced all the way back physically from that injury. Cousins

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Speaker 1: kind of is what he is at this stage of

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Speaker 1: his career after his injuries. But Wood is kind of

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Speaker 1: an ideal type of player, at least offensively, to play

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Speaker 1: off of James Harden playing the pick and roll, run

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Speaker 1: the floor. I mean, there's a chance for this team

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Speaker 1: if they all bought in, to compete pretty hard for

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Speaker 1: a top four or five seed in the Western Conference,

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Speaker 1: and from there, you never know what's gonna happen. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, the Clippers have fallen on their face, you

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Speaker 1: know recently in the playoffs. The Lakers, they look like

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Speaker 1: the best team right now, but they could be one

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Speaker 1: injury away from scuffling. I mean, the Rockets are not

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Speaker 1: bad enough that you know, declaring this team unfixable makes

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Speaker 1: any kind of sense at this point of the season.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to Kyrie in that issue in a moment here.

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Speaker 1: Do you agree with you know, I'm watching the Lakers

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Speaker 1: and Lebron's played in every game, but he's playing a

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Speaker 1: career low thirty two minutes. It feels like there is

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Speaker 1: load management during games, not taking nights off. Do you

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Speaker 1: sense this a little bit? I mean, you know, as

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Speaker 1: any coach will tell you, it's difficult to get Lebron

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Speaker 1: to bring his minutes down. He wants to play in

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Speaker 1: every game. He wants to play as many minutes as possible,

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Speaker 1: and the numbers reflect that he's usually got his way.

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Speaker 1: But this is exactly what the Lakers need to be doing,

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Speaker 1: keeping those minutes in the low thirties, kind of the

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Speaker 1: way that Milwaukee's treated Yatis over the last few years

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Speaker 1: of his career. If you do that, you don't necessarily

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Speaker 1: need to give him too many nights off. And I'm

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Speaker 1: sure there will be nights he'll take off in the

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Speaker 1: weeks and months ahead. They're just too many three and

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Speaker 1: four nights back to back. A lot of weird situations

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Speaker 1: because of the schedule that undoubtedly are only going to

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Speaker 1: get weirder because of these postponements. But if you can

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Speaker 1: keep Lebron in the early thirties and minutes, nothing guarantees anything,

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Speaker 1: I guess, but it gets as close as you can

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Speaker 1: be to making sure that he's fully propression in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: It feels like the sports media might be waking up

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Speaker 1: today or this week and going, oh wow, there's COVID

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Speaker 1: issues going on because We've been dealing with the NFL.

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Speaker 1: College football, the NBA has been dealing with this that

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Speaker 1: they survived Orlando, but now this is reality here. College

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Speaker 1: basketball the same thing. So where you know, where's the

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Speaker 1: NBA going to be headed to kind of protect itself

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Speaker 1: in this, you know, especially in Los Angeles, you know,

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Speaker 1: with you know the COVID issues there. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: the NBA says they've expected this, they anticipated this, but

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Speaker 1: I don't believe they expected this much and this many

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Speaker 1: issues this early in the season. Where are they headed?

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Speaker 1: They're gonna push forward, Dan, It's just as simple as that.

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Speaker 1: They are determined to get as close to seventy two

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Speaker 1: games in on this schedule. They are determined to get

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Speaker 1: this season over by early July before the Olympics. And

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Speaker 1: there is hope amongst the league executives that I've talked

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Speaker 1: to in the last forty eight hours that these enhanced

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Speaker 1: protocols are going to help. Now the league, it has

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Speaker 1: a COVID problem, especially when it comes to teams like Dallas,

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Speaker 1: which now has a recent run of COVID positive players.

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Speaker 1: But more than anything, it has a close contact problem.

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Speaker 1: That's what's wreaking havoc amongst teams in this league with

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Speaker 1: their rosters. One guy goes out with COVID, but then

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Speaker 1: four or five other guys have to go out because

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Speaker 1: they were in close contact with that player. That's at

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Speaker 1: the crux of the changes the league made in the

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Speaker 1: last twenty four hours where they said, look, when you're

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Speaker 1: at home, you gotta stay in your house when you're

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Speaker 1: on the road. No more approved restaurants, no more friends

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Speaker 1: in hotel room. They're going to do everything they can

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Speaker 1: to limit the interactions of players as best as possible.

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Speaker 1: And the unions on board with this. I mean, everything

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Speaker 1: the league has done has had to be collectively bargained

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Speaker 1: with the union, and Michelle Roberts and the Union brass

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Speaker 1: are on board with this strategy because they know it

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Speaker 1: can't continue like this. So the only way to ensure

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Speaker 1: that not only are these games played, but they're played

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Speaker 1: at a high level where you're not just having eight

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Speaker 1: guys out there struggling to get through a game. The

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00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:30,640
Speaker 1: only wings to make sure that happens is to severely

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Speaker 1: restrict player movements in the most significant way outside of

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Speaker 1: a bubble. Atlanta at Phoenix has just been postponed that

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00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:42,640
Speaker 1: the Suns couldn't come up with the recontact tracing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the required number of players. By the way, plenty of

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00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:49,080
Speaker 1: room on the LaMelo Ball bandwagon if you would like

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00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 1: to get Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

556
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 1: no no. Who called LaMelo Ball in print for Rookie

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00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 1: of the Year before the season. This guy I did

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00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:01,720
Speaker 1: all in on LaMelo Ball bandwagon. I know, how about

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Speaker 1: in a medium that people actually are going to be

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00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,960
Speaker 1: able to see, you know, and here it's in print

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Speaker 1: and online. What do you want me to do? Scream

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00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,000
Speaker 1: it from the top of mount Snow. You should have

563
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:14,680
Speaker 1: said I want to be on your show. I want

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Speaker 1: to scream from the mountaintops. I got one thing to say.

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00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:21,360
Speaker 1: We could have been there together. We could have been

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Speaker 1: there together. I'm still not entirely sure. I didn't say it,

567
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 1: but everything you save are things that I get wrong.

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Speaker 1: So I don't. We can work together on the project

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Speaker 1: if you'd like to. Okay, timelines maybe a little off there,

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00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:37,560
Speaker 1: but I'll give you a little bit of credit there. Yeah. Maybe. Look,

571
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Speaker 1: I watched a lot. I thought LaMelo Ball was one

572
00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 1: of the most overscrutinized players coming into the draft. I mean,

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00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:46,760
Speaker 1: everyone was kind of focused on the fact that he

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Speaker 1: didn't finish the season Lithuania, then overseas, he didn't finish

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Speaker 1: the season in New Zealand, Like he just he had

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00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:55,600
Speaker 1: so many problems. And I said that a week before

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Speaker 1: you said it. Well, I okay, I didn't hear you

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Speaker 1: say that. I've just I believe this kid has a

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00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:04,800
Speaker 1: lot of talent. I think he is a incredible playmaker

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00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,800
Speaker 1: and on that team with the firepower they kind of

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00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 1: have with Hayward and Terry Rozier and Graham, like that's

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00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:13,720
Speaker 1: a recipe for, you know, being a double double type

583
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Speaker 1: of guy every single night. So I think he's really good.

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Speaker 1: I agree, you know, the SHOT's going to be an issue,

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00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:22,480
Speaker 1: but he's fun to watch. Shots are issues for everybody, Dan,

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00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 1: I mean, just give him a couple of years. Somebody

587
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:27,239
Speaker 1: will rework his shot and it will get better. I mean,

588
00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 1: there's there's too many shot doctors in the NBA right

589
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 1: now for for that to be a lingering issue towards

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00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:34,840
Speaker 1: is a sense, all right, I have held off long

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00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 1: enough Kyrie Irving situation here. Help me understand, because I've

592
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 1: been told by two people that I trust you gotta

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00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 1: be you know, make sure you're sensitive here. You don't

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00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:46,600
Speaker 1: want to be You're not sensitive in a situation like

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00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 1: this on your show, And I go, Okay, tell me

596
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:51,080
Speaker 1: what to be sensitive about with Kyrie Irving? What am

597
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 1: I missing here with Kyrie Irving? Well, it's still unclear

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00:31:56,280 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 1: about exactly why he's away from the team the Nets. No,

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00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 1: the Nets know why he's away. I don't think that

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00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:07,440
Speaker 1: was abundantly clear to them. Very early on. He heard

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00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:09,720
Speaker 1: Steve Nash say in his first press a Bill when

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00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 1: Kyrie disappeared that he didn't really know where Kyrie was.

603
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:16,959
Speaker 1: But they know now, and Kyrie's teammates as a result

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00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:20,320
Speaker 1: of text conversation with them, they're aware of the situation

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00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 1: right now. I can't say I know definitively, Dan, So

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00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:25,200
Speaker 1: I don't want to speculate too much on a guy

607
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 1: being a way for personal reasons. But one thing I

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00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:30,240
Speaker 1: can tell you is that the Nets are going to

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00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:34,200
Speaker 1: continue to handle this situation with kid gloves, not because

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00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 1: they're empathetic with Kyrie Irving necessarily, I'm sure they are

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00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:42,600
Speaker 1: on some level. They just know that he's the key

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00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:45,240
Speaker 1: to them winning a championship, so they're not going to

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00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 1: sabotage their season by getting a little overworked up about

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00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:53,720
Speaker 1: something that's going on in the month of January. The

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00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 1: thing you have to watch, though, is the impact this

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Speaker 1: has on Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant could have gone anywhere,

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00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 1: He could have signed with any team in the league.

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00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 1: He chose Brooklyn and Kyrie Irving. He thought, because of

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00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 1: his friendship with Kyrie Irving, that they would be an

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00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 1: ideal pair. Kevin Durant's not saying much right now, but

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Speaker 1: what I'm wondering, and I've heard this from other people

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00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 1: across the league, is how long does that last? How

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Speaker 1: long does Kevin Durant say? Look, I'm playing like an

624
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:21,560
Speaker 1: MVP right now. I'm all the way back from my injury.

625
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 1: I need you to get back here and help me out.

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Speaker 1: We've got chemistry issues to figure out with new teammates.

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00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 1: We've got to work stuff out between each other on

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Speaker 1: the floor. What I'm watching is Durant and Look, this

629
00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:35,800
Speaker 1: is going to be a process because now that that

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00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:38,720
Speaker 1: video was out there, this is out of Kyrie's heads

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00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:40,680
Speaker 1: and it's out of the nets hands for when he

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00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 1: can return. If the NBA determines that that video was authentic.

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Speaker 1: For this week, as it appears to be a birthday

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00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 1: He's gonna have to go into some protocols. He's gonna

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Speaker 1: have to be yeah, the video at the birthday party.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna have to go into some protocols that will

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Speaker 1: keep him out for another week, if not longer. So

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Speaker 1: was he in a zoom call last night that had

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Speaker 1: Kai Kai Okay, Okay, I think okay. I saw that.

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Speaker 1: Malik Andrews tweeted that out. That was I mean, because

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Speaker 1: it's like it's gonna be like it's gonna be like

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Speaker 1: a Where's Waldo situation for a while. Kyrie pops up

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Speaker 1: everywhere but at the NETS practics facility. Okay, but he's

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Speaker 1: this is during the NETS game last night. He's on

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Speaker 1: a zoom call. Help me. I wish I could, Dan,

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Speaker 1: I don't fully understand the situation. All I've been told

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Speaker 1: is the NETS are aware of exactly what's going on,

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Speaker 1: but they have no idea when he's coming back. And look,

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Speaker 1: you can tell from some of the public statements that

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Speaker 1: have been made that the NETS are starting to get

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Speaker 1: a little bit you know, tired of some of this.

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Speaker 1: You mean, Steve Nash saying Kyrie will have an opportunity

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Speaker 1: to explain it when he comes back. The statement issued

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Speaker 1: by Sean marks the general manager, saying Kyrie saying basically

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Speaker 1: the same thing, that Kyrie will have a chance to

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Speaker 1: explain it. I mean they understand everything I just said

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Speaker 1: that they need Kyrie back on the floor to start

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Speaker 1: developing chemistry with a team that's been kind of been consistent.

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Speaker 1: I mean their defense has been really bad, their offense

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Speaker 1: is durant, their rotations are all over the place right

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Speaker 1: now under Steve Natch. They've got to start developing some

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Speaker 1: chemistry in this season if they hope to have a

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Speaker 1: chance to win a championship in a couple of months.

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Speaker 1: Good to talk to you is always Chris. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: joining us. You got it. That's Chris Mannox. He's all

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Speaker 1: in on LaMelo ball. All in on LaMelo ball. That's good.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's fine. Come on in. There's plenty of

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Speaker 1: room in there if you want to. Well, Jacob break

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Speaker 1: last call for phone calls. What we learn close up

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Speaker 1: shop after this. Thanks for listening to The Dan Patrick

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Speaker 1: Show podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weekday

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Speaker 1: Peacock app. Sun's Rockets our Suns Hawks game has been

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Speaker 1: postponed tonight, Suns didn't have enough players. I'll volunteer. I'll play.

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Speaker 1: I can give you, like I don't know, ten minutes,

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Speaker 1: like two minutes each quarter, two and a half minutes

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Speaker 1: each quarter. And I think I'm pretty good there. Yeah, Paul,

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Speaker 1: got a couple of good games that you'll love tonight. Mavericks, Hornets,

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Speaker 1: your Hornets, you got Nick's Nets, sALS, Kyrie, Lakers, thunder

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Speaker 1: Laker Girls, Pelicans Clippers late night. That's good, Pelicans Clippers. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right. Assuming Jared Golf gets the start for the

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Speaker 1: Rams on Saturday, this will be just the seventh time

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Speaker 1: that two quarterbacks who went to the same college started

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Speaker 1: against one another in the playoffs. Let me see if

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Speaker 1: I can give you a couple of these are tough.

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Speaker 1: A couple of these are really tough. First time it

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Speaker 1: happened was nineteen seventy one divisional playoff game the Kansas

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Speaker 1: City Chiefs against the Miami Dolphins. Bob Greasy, Len Dawson

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Speaker 1: both went to Purdue. Nice try mclove and getting your

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Speaker 1: O you said, Bob Greasy, I'm like, oh, it's gotta

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Speaker 1: be Purdue. Okay, Uh, let's see nineteen eighty three Conference

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Speaker 1: Championship Niners, Redskins Pisan, Montana Notre Dame. Yeah. Then you

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Speaker 1: have nineteen eighty nine divisional playoff game Cleveland against Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's easy. Yeah, McLevin, that's Miami. But who are

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Speaker 1: who the quarterbacks? So it's got to be cos Are

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Speaker 1: Cleveland against Miami. Co's are against test Severity? No, No,

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Speaker 1: cos Are Jimmy Kelly, Jim Kelly. Sorry, Yeah, maybe it

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Speaker 1: wasn't that easy. Oh I just panicked. Nineteen ninety two

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills versus the Pittsburgh Steelers. Oh, this one's

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Speaker 1: this one's tough. Oh is that h Tommy Maddox, No,

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Speaker 1: he went to Ucla. The quarterbacks both went to Ucla. No,

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Speaker 1: oh no, they went to Maryland. Oh Frank Reich and

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Speaker 1: no Toddler. I'm gonna go with todd there all right.

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Speaker 1: Nineteen ninety six Wild Card it was Philadelphia versus San Francisco. Oh,

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Speaker 1: this sneaky good Okay, ninety six, I could get this one, okay,

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Speaker 1: is this oh Rodney Pete, No, he went to USC.

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Speaker 1: It's not him, though it is now who is that

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Speaker 1: quarterback in ninety six for the Eagles b y uh yeah,

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Speaker 1: Ty Detmer, Steve Young. And then two thousand and nine

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Speaker 1: wild Card Cincinnati versus the New York Jets. This one's easy,

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Speaker 1: Charlie Batch and I'm just kidding. No, so Cincinnati two

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Speaker 1: thousand nine Carson Palmer. Yeah, us, Yeah, who's easy Jet's

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Speaker 1: quarterback from USC? That's easy? We should know this, y. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I went to two AFC title games. Mark Sanchis was

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Speaker 1: around in two thousand and nine. Yeah, oh my god, yeah,

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Speaker 1: same kids. Might have gotten that one wrong. Sorry, Mark,

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Speaker 1: We should call him and see if we could get

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Speaker 1: that off the top of it. Mark listened to the show. Sorry, Mark,

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Speaker 1: I was just joking, all right. Uh. Let see Ryan

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Speaker 1: and Honolulu. Hey, Ryan, welcome back, Hello, and a happy

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Speaker 1: belated happy New Years to Polly. I know he loves that. Um.

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Speaker 1: I got a couple of quick Mark headlines for Hardened

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Speaker 1: you ready Yeah, and by the way, Polly hates that.

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Speaker 1: Maybe Ryan? Okay, so you got mock headlines and the

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Speaker 1: topic is hardened. Okay, James Harden, I'll give you three.

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Speaker 1: You got three my headlines, and I've only got two

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Speaker 1: good ones. But saying in Hugetown is gut check for hardened. Okay.

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Speaker 1: Fritzie called it Hugetown a couple of years ago. Agetown

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Speaker 1: but huge town. Thank you, Ryan. Okay, what else you

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Speaker 1: Harden aims to average triple Bypass this season? Oh wow,

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Speaker 1: wow dark you want one? You want one? More? Might

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Speaker 1: be a fail, but Harden wants to take out but

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Speaker 1: will rockets delivery? I would have stopped at the triple Bypass.

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Speaker 1: But that's yeah, Thank you Ryan, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Have a great day there, Ryan, whatever time it is there,

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Speaker 1: have a great day, solid effort. Definitely see this is

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Speaker 1: I And this is where Todd leaves the show because

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Speaker 1: is mine? Not after that? Yeah, then you're like, okay,

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Speaker 1: now let me do James Harden my headlines. Not today?

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Speaker 1: You're lost me. Yeah, I've done not today. Final results

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Speaker 1: of the pull question McLevin, would you take calls for

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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson if you're the Texans? Seventy four percent say yes.

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Speaker 1: If you do, there's no turning back. That's my only

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Speaker 1: concern with that, Todd. Would you learn? On today's award

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Speaker 1: nominated program, Russ Tucker says, the first rule of snow

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Speaker 1: to paulis this day in sports history? You're gonna like

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Speaker 1: these Dan nineteen ninety four, Tanya Harding's bodyguards plural. We're

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Speaker 1: much from him since nineteen ninety nine lockout so short

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Speaker 1: an NBA season. Michael Jordan says, I'm not playing. He's done.

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Speaker 1: He retires from the Bulls for the second. Perhaps you

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Speaker 1: have heard of him, mcloven, what did you learn today?

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Speaker 1: I learned that Chris Mannix is in a LaMelo ball

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Speaker 1: says he was there first. I don't buy it. Oh

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Speaker 1: he might have been. He might have been. But and

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Speaker 1: that's good. But you are right, there's plenty of room

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Speaker 1: We all watch the Hornets now believe he's fun to watch.

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Speaker 1: He just sees the game differently and and he does.

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Speaker 1: He's a lot of fun. Seeton O'Connor. Would you learned today?

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Speaker 1: Could have been U N Mannix, but he you know,

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