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Speaker 3: October twenty second, It's Opening Night and the marquee game

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Speaker 2: For the defending world champion Giro Rectors.

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Speaker 3: The Battle for Los Angeles. The first time anyone gets

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Speaker 3: The first time Kawhi Leonard will wear a Clippers jersey,

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Speaker 3: the first time Lakers versus Clippers might actually be the

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Speaker 3: two best teams in the league. Squaring off, the Clippers

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Speaker 3: win one twenty two, one to twelve. Kawhi leads all

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Speaker 3: scores with thirty in his LA debut, while Anthony Davis

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Speaker 3: goes for twenty five, nine and five in the loss.

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Speaker 3: Paul George is still on the shelf after getting what

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Speaker 3: he calls new shoulders. But this is the kind of

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Speaker 3: victory people were expecting to see, as defense and depth

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Speaker 3: leads the Clips to a victory in their technical home opener,

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Speaker 3: the two teams would go their separate ways for a while.

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Speaker 1: For the first time in a decade, Lebron. James had

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Speaker 1: a long rest after playing in the finals from twenty

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Speaker 1: eleven to twenty eighteen, and injured groin halted Lebron's eighteen

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Speaker 1: nineteen season early, and for once he actually got to chill.

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Speaker 2: It paid off right away.

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Speaker 1: Stinging from that opening night loss to the Clippers, the

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Speaker 1: Lakers went on a tear, with Lebron looking like the

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Speaker 1: best player in the world again and leading the league

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Speaker 1: and assists at thirty five years old. The Lake Show

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Speaker 1: would go on to win twenty five four of their

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Speaker 1: next twenty six games. Lebron relished the challenges, like in

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Speaker 1: a Game of the Year candidate against the MAVs and

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Speaker 1: Luka Doncic thirty nine, twelve and sixteen for Lebron, thirty one,

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Speaker 1: thirteen and fifteen for Doncic, As Justin Kubatko tweeted, Luca

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Speaker 1: became the youngest player in NBA history with thirty ten

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Speaker 1: player in the same game. That was incredible just seeing

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Speaker 1: them after the game, the way that Lebron was like, man,

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Speaker 1: it's awesome, how much you like me and how good

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Speaker 1: cool to see how long Davis was brilliant as expected

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Speaker 1: generating dpoy buzz as La built a fearsome defense on

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Speaker 1: the strength of ad new edition Danny Green and a

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Speaker 1: and three for best in the league. The Lakers finally

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Speaker 1: faltered at the end of December, first the perhaps understandable

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Speaker 1: Then the Bucks wouldn't fall, and Giannis kinged himself.

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Speaker 3: Giannis putting on the crown. He hits a shot, he

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Speaker 3: he's saying, it's my turn.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly what he's saying.

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Speaker 1: I wear this now, he's saying as he is putting

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Speaker 1: it on. Lebron sat a couple of nights later against

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Speaker 1: the Nuggets, and the Lakers lost their third straight, tallying

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Speaker 1: Day matchup with the Clippers was next on the schedule.

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Speaker 4: The Lakers had Lebron, but the Clippers had Kawhi except

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Speaker 4: well when they didn't have them, just like he did

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Speaker 4: during his sixty game championship season for the Raptors. Comer, Okay,

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Speaker 4: come out, We're not going to do this again, all right,

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Speaker 4: I'm just saying what happened. Kawhi Leonard played for the Raptors,

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Speaker 4: he sat out games for load management, and he continued

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Speaker 2: For the Clippers, at least until the league told them

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Speaker 4: He sat out that loss last night, missing the front

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Speaker 4: end of a back to back set as part of

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Speaker 4: load management. Many derided the Clipper's decision to sit Kawhi

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Speaker 4: against the Honest with the poll quote of the day,

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Speaker 4: it's probably coming from Doris Burke, who said, why not

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Speaker 4: playing to me is ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: The memo said quote.

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Speaker 4: Load management is not an injury or an appropriate description

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Speaker 4: of an injury under the injury reporting procedures.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So like what the reason you're resting is? Is

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Speaker 4: it because of your legs? Is it because you're just

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Speaker 2: Your eyelids are heavy?

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Speaker 4: Injured eyelids yeah.

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Speaker 2: This is the thing.

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Speaker 1: It's basically saying, be good about lying or be honest.

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Speaker 1: I don't know which it is.

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Speaker 5: Be honest about lying, Yeah, sure.

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Speaker 2: It's important to be good at lying.

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Speaker 4: Since the reprimand, Kawhi has continued to rest when he

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Speaker 4: and the team decides if necessary, just like before one

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Speaker 4: game he didn't skip. However, was that return to Toronto?

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Speaker 5: What a video though, What a tribute video there from

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Speaker 5: the Raptors. I thought that was perfect.

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Speaker 2: Bomer, you just homered yourself. That's really weird, that's true.

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Speaker 5: Paul George and his brand new shoulders returned midway through November.

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Speaker 5: Ironically enough, in a game Kawhi was resting. PG immediately

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Speaker 5: returned to a high level, splashing threes and fitting perfectly

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Speaker 5: next to Kawaii when they both took the court. But

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Speaker 5: as the winds piled up, the drama continued, and this time,

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Speaker 5: rather than loads being managed, it was into family relations.

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Speaker 2: Doc Rivers is at mid court right now, Tony.

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Speaker 6: Brothers look at the sunseting call him for a tea tea.

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Speaker 2: Uh my dad, he's on the other team in there.

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Speaker 2: Its Doc's son.

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Speaker 4: Begging for his dad to get a technical. And now

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Speaker 2: Past have just looked at us.

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Speaker 5: He's I get a listens to the Bulls and the

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Speaker 5: and Rockets reassured the Clippers were obviously good. They just

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Speaker 5: didn't have the pedal to the medal. Christmas Day against

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Speaker 5: the Lakers was a chance to prove what they are.

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Speaker 3: December twenty fifth, the Lakers are down three, They're twenty

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Speaker 3: seconds left and the ball is in Lebron's hands. He's

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Speaker 3: struggling tonight, but he hit a couple threes earlier in

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Speaker 3: the fourth. And come on, it's Lebron James. Of course,

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Speaker 3: he has the ball in his hands. He's guarded by

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Speaker 3: Kawhi to start. Then after a screen it's Montres Harrel.

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Speaker 3: Then after another screen it's Patrick Beverly. Yeah, these Clippers

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Speaker 3: are deep. The ball banks to the corner. Then back

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Speaker 3: to Lebron on the right wing, with Beverly all up

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Speaker 3: Lebron jabs dribbles once steps back to his right, rising

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Speaker 3: for three over the much shorter Beverly.

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Speaker 6: Knocked out of his hands to flickt it out of bounds.

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Speaker 7: Patrick Beverlely bought a spectacular defensive.

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Speaker 3: Player strips it clean, so clean the refs go to

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Speaker 3: replay and see that not only did he block lebron

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Speaker 3: shot on the way up, it also hit bronze hands

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Speaker 3: on the way out of bounds. After an interminable amount

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Speaker 3: of time at the scorers table and a whole bunch

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Speaker 3: of that would be the Lakers ball if we were

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Speaker 3: playing pick up, the Clippers got the ball back. Day

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Speaker 3: won one hundred and eleven to one oh six. It's

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Speaker 3: two oh Clippers. They're scheduled to play again in a month.

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Speaker 1: Having proven themselves with their Christmas Day victory, the Clips

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Speaker 1: take it easy. The winds still come, but they're often uninspiring.

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Speaker 1: In an odd stretch, they give up one hundred and

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Speaker 1: forty and a loss to the Grizzlies, then barely beat

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Speaker 2: A couple weeks later.

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Speaker 1: A surprise loss to the Lowly Hawks leads to our

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Speaker 1: first real drama from either of the Hollywood squads. Montres

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Speaker 1: Harral his quotes after losing to the Grizzlies. We're not good,

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Speaker 1: he said, We're not a great team. We're not a

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Speaker 1: great team. I think it's that we need to realize

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Speaker 1: and wake up. We're a team that has to figure

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Speaker 1: things out to win night in and night out. Somebody

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Speaker 1: else ath him, what's the vibe like in the Clippers'

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Speaker 1: locker room after this Grizzlies loss? He says, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: That might be another problem right there. Doc Rivers says

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Speaker 1: that he doesn't think the Clippers have an identity the Clippers.

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Speaker 3: They like to lay an agger to the Clippers.

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Speaker 1: They can lose as many games as they want to

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Speaker 1: bad teams and nobody cares.

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Speaker 2: That's fine.

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Speaker 1: Look, you beat the Lakers twice and it's okay to

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Speaker 1: drop a stinker here and there.

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Speaker 2: We'll let it slide.

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Speaker 1: But just like after Opening Night, the loss ignites the Lakers.

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Speaker 1: They immediately peel off nine straight wins. Kyle Kuzma dies

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Speaker 1: his hair blonde, and Lebron keep playing so well that

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Speaker 1: we start wondering how he might do under different circumstances.

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Speaker 4: At Troy likes stuff. He tweeted in he wanted to

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Speaker 4: dig a little deeper into the hole. Lebron versus a

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Speaker 4: horse at the Olympics thing. Lebron and a horse if

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Speaker 4: they were competing in the Olympics. How that might shake out?

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Speaker 4: He hit us with a great thread, scoring who would

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Speaker 4: win each particular Olympic event between the two? Okay, aquatics,

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Speaker 4: horses per Google.

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Speaker 2: They can barely swim. What I always thought a horse

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Speaker 2: was good in water? I really did, so did everybody.

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Speaker 3: Horses like to have their hooves on the ground, That's

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Speaker 4: So Lebron won horse zero archery hooves, No good here,

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Speaker 4: Lebron two horse zero athletics. Finally we get to run

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Speaker 4: and run fast. Lebron two horse one. Yeah, horse wins

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Speaker 4: that one. Badminton hooves Lebron three horse one. Baseball slash

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Speaker 4: softball technically a team sport which cannot be played solo,

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Speaker 4: so both forfeit that one. Okay, basketball Lebron's day job.

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Speaker 4: Lebron four horse one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but horses a whole game.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, we might have to think about this. Okay, boxing,

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Speaker 4: imagine a Lebron and a horse boxing.

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Speaker 2: He scores it Lebron five horse one.

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Speaker 1: This is gonna sound crazy. A horse could take unlimited

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Speaker 1: punches to the face from Drona and all a horse

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Speaker 1: needs is one rear up, boxing gloves on front hoofs

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Speaker 1: and one strike, Lebron is not going to be able

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Speaker 1: to hang with a horse.

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Speaker 4: On January twenty sixth, tragedy strikes.

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Speaker 2: Well, we have our emergency podcast.

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Speaker 4: It's for the worst possible reason. This late Sunday night.

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Speaker 4: We just got into the now Dunks studio here.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure all you know.

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Speaker 4: Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash today with its

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Speaker 4: thirteen year old daughter Gianna. Also killed nine people in

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Speaker 4: January twenty eighth matchup between the Lakers and Clippers is postponed.

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Speaker 2: It's rescheduled for April.

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Speaker 4: All around the Association, teams take eight and twenty four

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Speaker 8: here now chanting for Kobe and the Wizards. They're gonna

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Speaker 9: Four here in Atlanta, and this has been happening all

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Speaker 4: When the team returns to Staples Center in late January,

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Speaker 10: Non At some point we will have a memorial forkbe

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Speaker 11: He could be.

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Speaker 12: Tonight we celebrate the kid that came here at eighteen

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Speaker 4: Man the MEBA announces that all players will wear Kobe's

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Speaker 4: Star Game. The game will feature a Kobe inspired twenty

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Speaker 4: Trophy will be renamed in Mamba's honor. Later in February,

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Speaker 13: Maybe it surprives people that Kobe and I were very

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Speaker 13: my dear friend. He was like a little brother. Everyone

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Speaker 13: I just wanted to talk about Kobe. You know, all

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Speaker 13: of us have brothers and sisters, little brothers, little sisters who,

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Speaker 13: I can say that word. But that nuisance turn into love.

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Speaker 5: It's not just on the court that the Lakers and

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Speaker 5: Clippers are competing. Every ring chasing vet is rumored to

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, the Lakers got Markith Morris on the

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Speaker 5: the Lakers played some of their best basketball of the season.

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Speaker 5: Lebron scores forty and each Red vines on the bench

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Speaker 3: Own March eighth. Here it is. It was a playoff

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Speaker 3: sterling performances from the leading men, but it was Avery

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Speaker 3: four of which came during a massive third quarter for

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Speaker 3: the Purple and Gold. Lakers went one to twelve, one

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Speaker 3: to oh three. Just like that, the Lakers become title favorites.

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Speaker 3: What yep, They just beat the Bucks and Clippers in

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Speaker 4: The Bucks had the best record in the league the

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Speaker 4: snatched Lebron's crown right, and the Clippers beat the Lakers twice.

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Speaker 3: Too true, but at least the Lakers haven't been caught

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Speaker 3: at Magic City.

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Speaker 2: No, they've just got an anti vaxxer on the squad.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so co favorites.

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Speaker 11: Meanwhile, in no dunks January thirty.

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Speaker 4: First, what's your uh, what's your favorite snack at a

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Speaker 3: Mm?

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Speaker 2: I like something healthy?

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Speaker 5: Oh my god, I like uh uncooked carrots and uh

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Speaker 3: We walk them all.

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Speaker 4: I've never heard someone called them uncooked parents, but not

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Speaker 4: baby carrots.

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Speaker 5: Feeling itself all sides, fel carrots, organic, uncooked. Don't use

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Speaker 5: it as an excuse to just gorge yourself on all

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Speaker 2: Balance it out a little bit.

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Speaker 4: James Harden, Chris Paul and Russell Westbrook have weaved a

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Speaker 4: Then they weren't. Westbrook won an MVP with Harden finishing second.

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Speaker 4: Four times. Harden has bounced Westbrook from the playoffs. Westbrook

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Speaker 3: If you've hurt a good Space Shuttle failure to launch joke.

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Speaker 3: Now is the time, Houston we have a problem. Because

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Speaker 3: The early frustration was never more evident than when James

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Speaker 3: of simple physics that you just when you when you

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Speaker 4: Records very respectable for the Rockets seven to three, but

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Speaker 4: especially when you consider their expectations. Anybody reaching for that

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna hit a mild panic button, oh a little,

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Speaker 3: But soon after Harding caught fire, forty seven, forty four,

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Speaker 3: Pretty quickly the question it wasn't about whether or not

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Speaker 7: We're inside eight minutes to go hard and the.

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Speaker 9: Steel and then.

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Speaker 2: That was really you know, they're couldn't miss it. The

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Speaker 4: It's two points.

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Speaker 3: Despite their pre existing relationship, fitting Westbrook next to Harden

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Speaker 3: And that's when it clicked, as Westbrook feasted on four

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Speaker 2: Weren't in So what if the tall guys were never in?

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Speaker 3: With Westbrook unlocked, Capella became expendable and was soon shipped

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Speaker 3: Robert Covington. The Rockets had officially embraced ultra small ball.

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Speaker 3: All they needed now was a nickname.

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Speaker 1: But my winner is the Houston Rockets because they are

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Speaker 2: So I did the math quickly. I could be wrong,

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Speaker 3: Houston won eleven and six playing with their pocket rockets,

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Speaker 1: After eleven years with some of the best players in

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Speaker 2: Instead, the Thunder turned into one.

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Speaker 1: Of the seasons best surprises and even got a hater

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Speaker 2: But there were still some bumps along the way.

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Speaker 2: The Fashion Police loser of the weekend. To Chris Paul

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Speaker 1: having his jersey touched. In having mastered the rule book,

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Speaker 1: the Thunder started rolling. CP three reclaimed the point god

440
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Speaker 1: status that some thought had passed him by getting teammates involved,

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Speaker 1: then taking over down the stretch with clutch baskets when

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446
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Speaker 1: also proved invaluable for OKC. Dennis Shrewder had the most

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Speaker 1: impactful season of his career, coming off the bench and

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Speaker 1: embracing the role on his way to becoming a leading

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Speaker 1: candidate for.

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Speaker 2: Sixth Man of the Year.

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Speaker 1: But sophomore shay Gilles Alexander's growth was even more impressive

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Speaker 1: as he led the team in scoring and inspired an

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Speaker 1: incredibly silly bet, why would not make the All Star

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Speaker 1: Game this year? Over Chris Paul?

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Speaker 2: No, No, I'm saying he won't. He's in the conversation.

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Speaker 4: He has to be.

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Speaker 2: He's averaging twenty. He doesn't have to three. He doesn't

458
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Speaker 2: have to be shooting forty seven percent. Okay, in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty he's gotten even better. So timing matters. We talk

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Speaker 2: about it all the time. He's not gonna make it.

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Speaker 4: I'm with you. He's gonna make it in the future,

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Speaker 4: immediate future probably, or is that too far for the

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Speaker 4: next season, next two seasons, he makes it.

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Speaker 1: I'll take that bet, all right, I'll say no, Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's fair. Stay tuned until twenty twenty two for the results.

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Speaker 1: The Three Guards ran things. Gallinari stayed healthy and Steven

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Speaker 2: Steven, how did this feel?

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Speaker 6: Free throw shooting has been such a key for you

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Speaker 3: How did it feel to.

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Speaker 2: Hit that one and then make the heads up play after?

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Speaker 14: Yeah? Absolutely, that's pretty time. I didn't realize how much

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Speaker 1: Despite coming into the season with low expectations, the Thunder

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Speaker 1: They've got the same record as Harden, Westbrook and the Rockets,

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna sort of double down on that prediction site

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Speaker 5: The Nuggets go as Nikolay Yokitch goes, and he usually

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Speaker 2: Shape thanks on man round is a shape, that's right.

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Speaker 5: Jokich rounded into form as the hyper skilled big man

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Speaker 5: It's the Dirk, but it's like it's a it's a

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Speaker 3: huge chunkers. I'm not into it, but you know, I

658
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 3: always give everybody second chance. I wore sunglasses like that

659
00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 3: once upon a time. They're ugly, they're gross, but he

660
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Speaker 3: deserves a second chance.

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00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:07,040
Speaker 5: Everybody wears ugly sunglasses sometimes and sometimes it was ugly

662
00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 5: for Denver this season, but they wanted a high clip

663
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:11,919
Speaker 5: this year, then last, and they're third in the West

664
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Speaker 5: even after a sluggish start. You've got to give people

665
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Speaker 5: a second chance with their glasses and their basketball.

666
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 4: Meanwhile, in No Ducks February, Nora gets so upset with

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Speaker 4: me if I make popcorn.

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Speaker 2: And I do not like to leave any kernel behind

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Speaker 2: Colonel behind. Yeah, sure, I like to push it.

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Speaker 4: There's no doubt on that in a couple ten or

671
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Speaker 4: fifteen seconds morecause I want everybody to join in the party.

672
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Speaker 4: But then you risk that little burnt popcorn swell. But

673
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Speaker 4: I can burn one colonel and Nora can smell it

674
00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:47,800
Speaker 4: instantly and be like, well, the whole bag's ruined.

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Speaker 5: I come on, I just wish that arenas they wouldn't

676
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Speaker 5: make the one bag size only for popcorn.

677
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Speaker 4: Just make it smaller, make it small and allow us

678
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Speaker 4: to come back and get more popcorn.

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Speaker 5: It's not that hard because you try to stop a

680
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 5: seven year old when he's just like it's just like

681
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Speaker 5: a machine, non stock. I said, right, that's enough, you've

682
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:06,120
Speaker 5: had enough.

683
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 4: That's enough. We're getting non cooked carrots.

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Speaker 5: I tell you, they could be a little market for that.

685
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:12,759
Speaker 5: You know, have a you know, buy some popcorn, get

686
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Speaker 5: a couple of carrots with you as.

687
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Speaker 4: Well, basically like French fries. Yeah, wouldn't feel so bad.

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Speaker 1: It's a small market.

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00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 4: Salt Lake City is situated in a valley between a

690
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 4: few different mountain ranges. It's beautiful for a city, and

691
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 4: it was that kind of season for the jazz high highs,

692
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 4: low lows, peaks and valleys. Utah excelled early, pushing to

693
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Speaker 4: the top of the West and beating the Bucks on

694
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Speaker 4: a game winner from new acquisition Boyon bogdanovitch.

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00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:44,719
Speaker 3: Why don't they pump.

696
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:57,680
Speaker 15: Bar beautiful in inbound by Joe easily down with two

697
00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:01,359
Speaker 15: chants on the clock as a horn sound, the Jazz went.

698
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:02,839
Speaker 3: It all the celebration.

699
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:07,759
Speaker 4: Bogdanovic, whose season recently ended after wrist surgery, slotted it

700
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:12,200
Speaker 4: nicely alongside Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert, but integrating Mike

701
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:16,239
Speaker 4: Conley proved to be trickier as the former grizz Vet

702
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 4: struggled to adapt to Utah system. Calls for Joe Ingalls

703
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 4: to replace Conley in the starting lineup soon came, and

704
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 4: they were answered when a hamstring injury put the Vet

705
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:29,920
Speaker 4: on the shelf for a month. The Jazz peaked with

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Speaker 4: their new starting five, winning ten in a row during

707
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:36,759
Speaker 4: an impressive twenty to three stretch. Preseason, chatter had been

708
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Speaker 4: about which of Utah's two stars would make their All

709
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 4: Star Game debut.

710
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:43,719
Speaker 2: Come February, it was both of them.

711
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:49,239
Speaker 4: The Descent, though mmmm uneven Conley returned from injury and

712
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:52,760
Speaker 4: eventually to the starting lineup, as Utah struggled to recreate

713
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:56,799
Speaker 4: the every night consistency on display during their best span.

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Speaker 2: Win four, lose five, repeat.

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Speaker 7: One point six left to play angles, trying to get

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Speaker 7: it in, having trouble back Ganovich tough shot, he went down,

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Speaker 7: Are you talk?

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Speaker 3: Jazz here?

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Speaker 13: Got it?

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Speaker 7: Jan Bogdanovich, We're only his second three pointer of the game.

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Speaker 13: And to the.

722
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Speaker 7: Wa shot by back Ganovich. Wow, and what a fitter finish?

723
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Speaker 7: Or the Houston Rock gets fire.

724
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Speaker 4: The defense is good, if not always great, as extra

725
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Speaker 4: small teams proved a challenge for a team increasingly reliant

726
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:42,960
Speaker 4: on Gobaar to solve most problems. Mitchell was often sensational

727
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 4: when he wasn't, making things a bit too hard. Then

728
00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 4: March eleventh hit and the Jazz became the biggest story

729
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:55,320
Speaker 4: in America. Rudy Gobert tested positive for the coronavirus, so

730
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Speaker 4: the league released a statement quote the NBA suspending gameplay,

731
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Speaker 4: allowing the conclusion of Wednesday's schedule of games until further notice.

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Speaker 4: The NBA will use this hiatus to determine next steps

733
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Speaker 4: for moving forward in regard to the coronavirus. Pandemic, Rudy

734
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Speaker 4: Gobert and Tom Hanks forever linked.

735
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Speaker 3: Here is every time Luka Doncic or Ja Morant was

736
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Speaker 3: a winner of the weekend.

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Speaker 4: My first winner Guys of the Weekend Grizzlies rookie Ja Morant.

738
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Speaker 2: This guy's a real one. This guy is something else.

739
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Speaker 4: One of my winners from the NBA Weekend, Luka Doncic.

740
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Speaker 4: He's been unreal to start this season.

741
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Speaker 3: Grizzlies have won five in a row. Why should you

742
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:45,680
Speaker 3: cheer for them? While they're a small market, they're young,

743
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Speaker 3: They're led by John Morant, a man who will win

744
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Speaker 3: Rookie of the Year and who is must watch television.

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Speaker 4: Uh your league pass, Luca there, your donk Lee has

746
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Speaker 4: been has been so much fun to watch. The mas

747
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Speaker 4: are one of the most exciting teams to watch right

748
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 4: now and Luca is it like a stretch to say

749
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:07,280
Speaker 4: he's like already a top ten player in this league.

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Speaker 2: I don't think I'm going crazy by.

751
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Speaker 1: Seeing John Morant got a loss to the Kings on Friday,

752
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:16,360
Speaker 1: tough twenty points, eleven assists, three rebounds, but then brooke

753
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:18,680
Speaker 1: the losing streak by game losing streak.

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Speaker 4: I'll I'll show a little love to Luca Luka Doncic

755
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 4: another winner of the weekend. This must be what is

756
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:26,680
Speaker 4: third or fourth one here? While we were doing no

757
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 4: dunks early in the season, John Morant is a winner

758
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Speaker 4: of the weekend Grizzlies.

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00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:34,239
Speaker 5: Yes again, what an incredible rum he's on right now?

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00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:34,839
Speaker 13: Don't chinch.

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00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:37,600
Speaker 5: He is just bowling every single time he gets on

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Speaker 5: the floor.

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Speaker 2: Saturday was the John Moran Show.

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Speaker 4: That was awesome. Harden esque Lou Williams. You see how

765
00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:47,919
Speaker 4: Lou is even loving it. John Morans must watch TV.

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Speaker 4: He's has to be on the short list of guys

767
00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:52,920
Speaker 4: you want to like. Either go see live or just

768
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:55,399
Speaker 4: fire up League Pass to see what he's doing. He's

769
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:56,120
Speaker 4: that exciting.

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Speaker 2: Jay Murant, we know he's good gamey see it again?

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Speaker 5: What did I say, Jays Jamaran.

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Speaker 2: J Yeah, we know it's good.

773
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:09,000
Speaker 3: But to put it on your notes as JH yeah cool.

774
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:13,759
Speaker 3: Both also maintained their excellence during the week becoming critical

775
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:17,200
Speaker 3: darlings while leading their respective teams to surprising seasons.

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00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:20,920
Speaker 5: Luca had a special season, butting his way into MVP

777
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:23,920
Speaker 5: talks early, then staying there the entire season as the

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00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:27,960
Speaker 5: Mavericks posted the single highest offensive rating in NBA history.

779
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:30,959
Speaker 5: He finished second only to Lebron in All Star voting,

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Speaker 5: fitting after the two joint forces for our most rewatchable

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00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:35,560
Speaker 5: game of the season.

782
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:40,799
Speaker 4: November one, twenty nineteen, Lebron and Luca's triple double duel

783
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 4: in Dallas.

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Speaker 8: Here is Bradley James.

785
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 3: James going to the rim.

786
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:47,799
Speaker 2: Kicks to the corner, three to three to time.

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Speaker 13: He got it.

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Speaker 2: We have overtime.

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Speaker 5: It wasn't just Doncic, though, making his Dallas debut after

790
00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:00,160
Speaker 5: twenty months recovering from a knee injury, Christaps Pausing has

791
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:02,440
Speaker 5: found the form that made him such a promising fit

792
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:05,919
Speaker 5: next to Doncic. Dwight Palace torn Achilles was certainly a blow,

793
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:09,719
Speaker 5: but Porzingis found himself comfortable at the five. By season's end,

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00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:13,840
Speaker 5: Kristats was posting twenty and ten's regularly. The sporting players

795
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:16,440
Speaker 5: were so good they got a coveted bench nickname. Shout

796
00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 5: out to the mild Stallions. Just About the only thing

797
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:25,160
Speaker 5: Dallas got drastically wrong this year was a uniform extreme.

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Speaker 1: Okay, these made me want to do the deal. This

799
00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:30,759
Speaker 1: looks like Martain Dew marketing. Between the color and the

800
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:33,600
Speaker 1: graffiti font that they're using on the front pop open

801
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:36,359
Speaker 1: a bottle of popping guzzle ite cap being kicking three

802
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:36,799
Speaker 1: your cysts.

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00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:38,200
Speaker 3: It's toone squad for.

804
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:43,200
Speaker 5: Me, ugly ish need to see them on a player first.

805
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:45,279
Speaker 5: That I'm trying to imagine a player running around, I'm

806
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:47,920
Speaker 5: trying to imagine the shorts and they don't looked great on.

807
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:51,640
Speaker 4: Luca was at the table for the MVP. Ja Moran

808
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:53,239
Speaker 4: hosted the Rookie of the Year at dinner.

809
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Speaker 2: I believe that's J one percent. It's Jah. You're the

810
00:43:57,520 --> 00:43:59,080
Speaker 2: only one that says change.

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Speaker 4: Led all rookies in scoring and assists and so dominated

812
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Speaker 4: his class that nineteen games from Zion is the only

813
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:11,600
Speaker 4: last ditch argument against the highlights piled up the best

814
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Speaker 4: Ja Morant assist from Tuesday night against the Rockets. Was

815
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:20,360
Speaker 4: it the behind the back dish to triple J on

816
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:23,719
Speaker 4: the move? Was it that little drop off that he

817
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:26,360
Speaker 4: had to triple J who then hammered it home. Or

818
00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:29,280
Speaker 4: was it the no look lob to Brandon Clark.

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Speaker 1: Best dime for me was the alley oop I thought

820
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:35,399
Speaker 1: the best highlight overall was the one Lee's talking about,

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Speaker 1: the one that he meant to be talking about. The

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00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:39,840
Speaker 1: fast break right the behind the back, basically just to

823
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:42,399
Speaker 1: kill a little time until JJJ was there to throw

824
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 1: down a monster dunk. But I thought that the dunk

825
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 1: was the best part of that one. If you're talking

826
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Speaker 1: strictly pass the behind the back in the half court

827
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Speaker 1: to the no look oop in a half court set

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Speaker 1: for a monster dunk that was wicked. Team success is

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Speaker 1: another check on Job's resume. Led by their rookie point guard,

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00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 1: Memphis exceeded expectations as a collection of hungry youngsters and

831
00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:08,720
Speaker 1: savvy vetts hit their stride mid season. Jaron Jackson Junior

832
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:13,240
Speaker 1: splashed from outside while Jonas Valanciunas mashed inside. Brandon Clark

833
00:45:13,320 --> 00:45:16,240
Speaker 1: might have been the best rookie after Jaw and don't.

834
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:18,799
Speaker 2: Forget about Canadian Dylan Brooks. Don't even say it, Leade

835
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Speaker 2: don't oh.

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00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:26,719
Speaker 1: Nonetheless, back in the preseason, Vegas bought in Memphis would

837
00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:28,880
Speaker 1: be one of the five worst teams in the league.

838
00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:31,680
Speaker 1: But an unproven team with a little known coach and

839
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:34,879
Speaker 1: a rookie throwing his body around proved the haters wrong

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00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:36,840
Speaker 1: and put together a playoff season.

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Speaker 5: Whoa in this corner.

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00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:48,280
Speaker 11: They made the playoffs in each of the past six seasons.

843
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:52,360
Speaker 11: They got a video game season from Damian Lillard and CJ.

844
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Speaker 11: McCollum averaged that career high and scoring. They were decimated

845
00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:00,680
Speaker 11: by injuries, but they brought back Carmelo needs to help

846
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Speaker 11: and he was actually pretty good. They're twenty nine and

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Speaker 11: thirty seven. Ladies and gentlemen. It's a fourth laden Trailblazer

848
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Speaker 11: to two and a half.

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Speaker 16: Second skin clock and shot clock. Willard work on books, dancing,

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Speaker 16: three up three Day, got the Clare Marie then times

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00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:27,640
Speaker 16: the game and loved mans fifty four and he's got

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00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 16: ten threes.

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Speaker 2: He'll twy to tight fifty seven, parts sixty seven, LOLd.

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Speaker 16: Sixty one points firteen and Loward just a marvelous parts.

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Speaker 2: In this corner.

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00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 11: They turned Brandon Ingram into an All Star and don

857
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:04,200
Speaker 11: Lonzo Ball making three. They got solid performances from Vett's Crew, Holiday,

858
00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:08,320
Speaker 11: Derrick Favors and JJ Reddick, but had trouble keeping everybody

859
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:11,360
Speaker 11: on the court. They only got nineteen games from Zion

860
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:15,440
Speaker 11: Williamson and that was enough to put the league on notice.

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00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:20,920
Speaker 11: They're twenty eight and thirty six the New Orleans Pagans.

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00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:28,280
Speaker 11: Here's Zion stepping back pulling the trigger ten head half there, there's.

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00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:30,600
Speaker 8: A lot of Zion and he finishes over.

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00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:32,759
Speaker 2: The Longson Wive Stray.

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Speaker 4: Put a rookie here, Zion between put it again.

866
00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:42,240
Speaker 2: Zion's got eight points in the last minute.

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Speaker 3: They want Zion to get it here he is and.

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Speaker 14: Brdle planted at time, gives it and finishes.

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Speaker 15: Ten points in difficult for a minute where Zion Williamson

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Speaker 15: My bar is best spread of the night.

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00:47:55,920 --> 00:48:00,160
Speaker 3: Zion gives it up, gets it back in.

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00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:07,800
Speaker 14: Airon Zion against Alder and this is back Zion.

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00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:08,319
Speaker 3: For four for.

874
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:16,919
Speaker 2: In this corner a triple threat match.

875
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:21,280
Speaker 11: They too battled injuries, as Tieron Fox and Marvin Bagley

876
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:25,080
Speaker 11: both missed significant chunks of time. Buddy Hill was firing

877
00:48:25,160 --> 00:48:28,560
Speaker 11: off the court and on fire on it, shooting the

878
00:48:28,719 --> 00:48:32,480
Speaker 11: lights out after getting benched, then winning the three point context.

879
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:36,400
Speaker 11: Harris and Barnes said he wouldn't shave till this season

880
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:38,680
Speaker 11: was over, and that was when he thought it ended.

881
00:48:38,719 --> 00:48:43,759
Speaker 11: In June, They're twenty eight thirty six the Sacramento Kings.

882
00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:47,160
Speaker 11: The free throw where fox Line drives it off the

883
00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:49,759
Speaker 11: front of the rim to himself may have been there

884
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:50,880
Speaker 11: highlight of the season.

885
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:55,920
Speaker 7: Kings have Fedman and the elitza down low for a

886
00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:58,280
Speaker 7: potential offensive rebound.

887
00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:01,880
Speaker 11: Wh this guy shit, Oh dude.

888
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:02,680
Speaker 2: Just see that gun?

889
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:04,239
Speaker 10: Oh fly?

890
00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:05,640
Speaker 3: If we are all time?

891
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:07,000
Speaker 17: That one they came.

892
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:10,000
Speaker 3: Whats happened?

893
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:15,319
Speaker 14: Granny fear deer fox lightning across the line.

894
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:18,799
Speaker 1: And in this corner, this is a fatal four way.

895
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:22,680
Speaker 11: They've made it to the playoffs twenty two straight seasons.

896
00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:26,919
Speaker 11: When Greg Popovich's and cracking wise Tim Duncan steps into

897
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:29,920
Speaker 11: coach from time to time. They don't shoot threes and

898
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:32,719
Speaker 11: they don't play d They're twenty seven and thirty six.

899
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:35,040
Speaker 11: It's the San Antonio Spurs.

900
00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:36,600
Speaker 3: Co's here.

901
00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:40,680
Speaker 4: Oh wow to the Spurs have it.

902
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:44,839
Speaker 2: They don't fall toot and the spur is not gonna

903
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:45,160
Speaker 2: let it.

904
00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:47,440
Speaker 8: Oh father off.

905
00:49:47,520 --> 00:49:49,280
Speaker 2: Congratulations to Timmy Donkan.

906
00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:49,719
Speaker 17: Getting that win.

907
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:54,440
Speaker 3: And in this corner is this cricket?

908
00:49:55,360 --> 00:50:00,960
Speaker 11: No, maybe they haven't been to the postseason since twenty ten.

909
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:03,640
Speaker 11: They got off to a hot start, but then they

910
00:50:03,719 --> 00:50:06,680
Speaker 11: flamed out. Devin Booker was an All Star and Kelly

911
00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:10,800
Speaker 11: Ubrey's game was as pretty as he was. DeAndre Ayden

912
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:14,799
Speaker 11: was good but also suspender. They're twenty second, thirty nine.

913
00:50:15,280 --> 00:50:16,720
Speaker 11: They're de fete.

914
00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:23,080
Speaker 2: Sound Devin Booker, who's got it again? Chase you back?

915
00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:27,239
Speaker 2: Conveins goes in with the left hand and what Wow?

916
00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:54,920
Speaker 6: That was an angry move by Devin hookerble.

917
00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:47,680
Speaker 13: Is that it? So?

918
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:51,280
Speaker 4: Here are some other things that happened in the Western Conference.

919
00:50:52,239 --> 00:50:55,279
Speaker 4: For the fifteenth time in the past sixteen season, the

920
00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:59,360
Speaker 4: Minnesota Timberwolves failed to make the playoffs, but for about

921
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:02,240
Speaker 4: a month they ran one of the great travel agency

922
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:06,320
Speaker 4: scams of all time. Is nobody on Wiggins Island with me? Nobody?

923
00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:07,759
Speaker 4: I got something coconuts?

924
00:51:08,719 --> 00:51:14,400
Speaker 3: You know I'm joining. Yeah, but the island. I have

925
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:16,960
Speaker 3: one requirement. The island has to be right under the rim,

926
00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:20,600
Speaker 3: because that's where he belonged. Yeahland's gotta be a little

927
00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:22,080
Speaker 3: circle underneath the hoop.

928
00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:24,359
Speaker 5: I'm not ready to buy property on weekends. So I'm

929
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:26,319
Speaker 5: coming out for weekend, man, I'm coming out to rage

930
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:26,880
Speaker 5: for a weekend.

931
00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:28,400
Speaker 4: This weekend, we show why not.

932
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:28,960
Speaker 2: Let's do it.

933
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:32,279
Speaker 4: By December, the island was deserted and the Wolves were

934
00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:33,880
Speaker 4: on an eleven game losing streak.

935
00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:39,200
Speaker 2: What happened to the subway? The subway fortunately shut down.

936
00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:41,120
Speaker 2: Rats infested it.

937
00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:45,080
Speaker 4: Yeah. January, the Wolves launched a thirteen game losing streak,

938
00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:48,279
Speaker 4: joining the Hawks as the only teams in the league

939
00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:52,400
Speaker 4: to have multiple double digit losing streaks this season. Wiggins

940
00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:55,840
Speaker 4: was eventually traded to the Warriors, where he continued to lose,

941
00:51:56,200 --> 00:52:00,719
Speaker 4: ultimately piling up twenty straight defeats before finally getting a

942
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:04,239
Speaker 4: win on February twenty ninth. Problem with that, nothing that

943
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:07,879
Speaker 4: happens on leap Day actually counts, so sorry. Things weren't

944
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:11,240
Speaker 4: much different for the other Wolves star Karl Anthony Towns,

945
00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:14,560
Speaker 4: after an early season suspension for fighting with Jowell. Embiid

946
00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:18,759
Speaker 4: also amassed a surprising personal losing streak, dropping seventeenth straight

947
00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:22,080
Speaker 4: games he played in as a combination of bad luck, injuries,

948
00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:26,719
Speaker 4: and incompetence saw Catman Do go from November thirteenth all

949
00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:29,680
Speaker 4: the way to February eighth without winning a home game.

950
00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:33,279
Speaker 4: It was a disappointing season for the Timberwolves, but maybe

951
00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:36,080
Speaker 4: it wasn't a total loss, as the team finally traded

952
00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:39,359
Speaker 4: for D'Angelo Russell after months of trying to acquire one

953
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:43,240
Speaker 4: of Town's best friends. We won't know until next year, however,

954
00:52:43,719 --> 00:52:47,680
Speaker 4: as the duo played just one game together, a loss, naturally,

955
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:51,320
Speaker 4: before a wrist injury put towns on the shelf. Sometimes

956
00:52:51,600 --> 00:52:54,040
Speaker 4: it's just not your year, though we say that all

957
00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:55,000
Speaker 4: the time about the Wolves.

958
00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:58,680
Speaker 3: For the first time since twenty fifteen, the Golden State

959
00:52:58,719 --> 00:53:01,759
Speaker 3: Warriors weren't one of the league's biggest stories Night in

960
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:04,479
Speaker 3: a Night Out. Kevin Durant was off to Brooklyn, Klay

961
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:06,760
Speaker 3: Thompson was going to be out the entire year following

962
00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:09,360
Speaker 3: attorney a cl in Game six of the Finals, and

963
00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:11,879
Speaker 3: even though everyone was excited to see Steph Curry as

964
00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:17,560
Speaker 3: a solo act, championship expectations were long gone. They did

965
00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:20,760
Speaker 3: have a new arena, which Curry christened with a forty

966
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:23,840
Speaker 3: foot air ball on the very first shot in the

967
00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:25,480
Speaker 3: Pristine Chase Center.

968
00:53:26,239 --> 00:53:28,040
Speaker 4: Coring way down town.

969
00:53:28,160 --> 00:53:32,000
Speaker 2: That comes up. Wait, he's trying to ana the right way.

970
00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:38,359
Speaker 13: Whoa out? He's just testing the air in the arena scene.

971
00:53:41,400 --> 00:53:45,040
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, Steph would play just four regular season games before

972
00:53:45,120 --> 00:53:48,480
Speaker 3: breaking his hand. With Clay out and Draymond Green nursing

973
00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:52,040
Speaker 3: a finger injury, the Warriors ran out some lineups full

974
00:53:52,239 --> 00:53:53,760
Speaker 3: of unknowns.

975
00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:56,400
Speaker 1: The Warriors, I know we're giving them the pass, but

976
00:53:56,400 --> 00:53:57,759
Speaker 1: they are the worst team in the league by far.

977
00:53:58,000 --> 00:53:58,799
Speaker 2: They just played again.

978
00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:00,799
Speaker 1: They got smacked by the map. They lost by nearly

979
00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:03,680
Speaker 1: fifty and everybody that played for the Warriors wasn't even

980
00:54:03,719 --> 00:54:06,279
Speaker 1: on the Warriors last season. Guys, you've never heard of

981
00:54:06,680 --> 00:54:07,280
Speaker 1: Kyle Bowman.

982
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:08,400
Speaker 4: He's a showman.

983
00:54:08,880 --> 00:54:10,200
Speaker 1: Eric Pascal, he's a rascal.

984
00:54:11,360 --> 00:54:12,520
Speaker 2: Mari Spelman, what the hell?

985
00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:15,279
Speaker 3: Man? This is good?

986
00:54:15,320 --> 00:54:18,359
Speaker 2: I like it, great joke.

987
00:54:18,520 --> 00:54:19,200
Speaker 5: I like Burks?

988
00:54:19,719 --> 00:54:20,400
Speaker 2: Does of works?

989
00:54:21,120 --> 00:54:21,440
Speaker 6: All right?

990
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:22,000
Speaker 8: Nice?

991
00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:23,919
Speaker 4: What we call he Stein? No one's fine.

992
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:28,480
Speaker 3: Draymond came back, but with the Splash Brothers on the end,

993
00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:32,560
Speaker 3: his particular blend of talents was diminished. That didn't stop

994
00:54:32,640 --> 00:54:35,960
Speaker 3: him from beefing with Charles Barklay, though, Hey, sack.

995
00:54:36,440 --> 00:54:38,279
Speaker 17: Draymond, don't talk as much since he haven't that a

996
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:39,040
Speaker 17: triple single?

997
00:54:41,719 --> 00:54:43,680
Speaker 4: What a triple single?

998
00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:51,040
Speaker 17: Barkley should stopped before I go take this job, though,

999
00:54:51,600 --> 00:54:54,480
Speaker 17: so I can do that well too. He alreadyn't make

1000
00:54:54,560 --> 00:54:56,680
Speaker 17: enough money playing, so he needed that job. He should

1001
00:54:56,760 --> 00:55:01,320
Speaker 17: stop talking to me. I like to Tennessee to so

1002
00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:04,120
Speaker 17: he should stop before I take his job. If he

1003
00:55:04,200 --> 00:55:09,320
Speaker 17: came talking, I'll take you soon. So did don the thanks,

1004
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:14,480
Speaker 17: So yeah, he probably should be quiet. He also can't

1005
00:55:14,560 --> 00:55:19,000
Speaker 17: talk basketball. Ru not smartough, I'm not qualified.

1006
00:55:19,680 --> 00:55:25,160
Speaker 3: Some things never change, some things never change. As for

1007
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:27,759
Speaker 3: a new addition, D'Angelo Russell. He did what he came

1008
00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:31,120
Speaker 3: to do in Golden State, score points, including a career

1009
00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:35,400
Speaker 3: high fifty two against the Timberwolves, and get traded to

1010
00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:39,360
Speaker 3: the Timberwolves, who were obviously impressed. In return, the Dubs

1011
00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:42,360
Speaker 3: got Andrew Wiggins in a first round draft pick. Welcome

1012
00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:44,920
Speaker 3: to Wiggins Island Warriors fans.

1013
00:55:46,920 --> 00:55:47,560
Speaker 2: And well, that's it.

1014
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:52,479
Speaker 4: Every single thing that happened in the entire NBA prior

1015
00:55:52,560 --> 00:55:56,160
Speaker 4: to this restart quite the journey. Maybe we forgot some

1016
00:55:56,280 --> 00:55:59,120
Speaker 4: things along the way, or maybe you just imagine them.

1017
00:55:59,520 --> 00:55:59,960
Speaker 2: Think about that.

1018
00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:02,360
Speaker 4: Which is a couple of days left until the season

1019
00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:03,440
Speaker 4: resumes in Orlando.

1020
00:56:04,040 --> 00:56:05,680
Speaker 2: All this past is prologue.

1021
00:56:06,239 --> 00:56:08,439
Speaker 4: The teams will look different from who's on the court,

1022
00:56:08,520 --> 00:56:10,720
Speaker 4: to what they look like, to how well they played together.

1023
00:56:11,320 --> 00:56:14,160
Speaker 2: But you can't know where you're going if you don't

1024
00:56:14,239 --> 00:56:16,520
Speaker 2: know where you've been. Clipper bros, you.

1025
00:56:16,600 --> 00:56:18,880
Speaker 1: Heard it here first, have a great time, turn up,

1026
00:56:19,080 --> 00:56:20,600
Speaker 1: Love you guys, awesome.

1027
00:56:20,360 --> 00:56:23,320
Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us. And remember, because of the hiatus,

1028
00:56:23,840 --> 00:56:28,120
Speaker 3: the Raptors are the longest reigning single season champions in

1029
00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:35,360
Speaker 3: NBA history. It's almost like they repeat it already you know,

1030
00:56:35,840 --> 00:56:36,919
Speaker 3: Embrace the bubble people,