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Speaker 3: Welcome back our number two here on the Herd on

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Speaker 3: a Monday. Lots of sports happening. Try to maintain yourselves, folks,

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Speaker 3: It's very difficult. We got exciting baseball in March. We've

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Speaker 3: got March Madness. We've got the Hot Lakers playing the

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Speaker 3: Rockets tonight. My guy Jovon Buja here in the studio

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Speaker 3: here in about I don't know. Six minutes after I

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Speaker 3: prattle on about my final four picks, joined by Rachel Nichols. Rachel,

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Speaker 3: how was the weekend? By the way, didn't get to

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Speaker 3: ask you that at the outset. I was so nervous,

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Speaker 3: you know, the Monday is a busy show.

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Speaker 4: I mean to read so much going on in this show,

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Speaker 4: but yeah, I was actually unveiled this week od it

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Speaker 4: was a lovely show.

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Speaker 3: What a baller sales? Was there? Snow or no, no,

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Speaker 3: not allot, just vacationing.

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Speaker 5: Huh friends, friends, birthday.

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Speaker 3: Oh, it's a nice birthday. I was schlupping my son

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Speaker 3: to a chess tournament. Oh, he had a brutal loss

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Speaker 3: in the championship.

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Speaker 5: Wait could you watch it?

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Speaker 3: Money.

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Speaker 4: First of all, both of our our kids are all

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Speaker 4: on chess teams, which is hilarious.

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Speaker 3: This is really smart.

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Speaker 5: And they don't let the parents in on my kids tournament.

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Speaker 3: And I'm one of those weirdo parents like taking photos

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Speaker 3: and like trying to engage, and.

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Speaker 5: You're a weirdo parent.

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Speaker 3: I'm shocked, very shocking, shock, unbelievable. All right, let me

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Speaker 3: quickly get to the final four. You guys, I love

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Speaker 3: March madness, very exciting. Basically, my life takes a hiatus.

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Speaker 3: I already told the wife. Listen, I'm not really available

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Speaker 3: this weekend. Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday are four of the

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Speaker 3: best days of the year. So please don't ask me

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Speaker 3: to drive to school pick up. I'm not making dinner.

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Speaker 3: I'm fine ordering pizza every meal. Okay, I need to

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Speaker 3: lock in, So I'm starting to fill out the brackets

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Speaker 3: and I've got my final four. We're just gonna go

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Speaker 3: with the final four to start, and then we'll break

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Speaker 3: down the semifinals and finals. So my final four teams

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Speaker 3: not gonna shock anybody. But I'm going with Cam Boozer

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Speaker 3: and Duke. I've got them in the final four coming

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Speaker 3: out of the East. Mild surprise, Illinois coming out of

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Speaker 3: the South. The South is the toughest region, if for

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Speaker 3: being honest. Okay, Florida is the one seed there. I

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Speaker 3: like them, don't love them. The problem is they just

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Speaker 3: got smoked by Vandy by over twenty this past weekend.

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Speaker 3: Vandy also in that region, Houston very dangerous. I'm going

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Speaker 3: with Illinois because I like offense, I like gosh. I

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Speaker 3: hate saying this. I like European players in March. Arizona

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Speaker 3: has many These guys are smart, savvy, they played professionally.

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Speaker 3: I'm just telling this Illinois team very dangerous. Obviously in

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Speaker 3: the Big Ten tournament they had a bad loss, But overall,

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Speaker 3: I think Illinois gets to the final four. Coming out

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Speaker 3: of the West. I've got Arizona. They are the best

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Speaker 2: Bet on them.

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Speaker 3: They are cash cow. They've got five guys who are

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Speaker 3: going to be drafted, four probably in the first round.

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Speaker 3: the conference player of the year who hit the game

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Speaker 3: winner over the weekend against Iowa State in a tremendous game.

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Speaker 3: And then my final team in the final four Michigan,

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Speaker 3: no huge surprise. I'm not going to read too much

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Speaker 3: into that loss to Purdue on Sunday. So those are

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Speaker 3: I got CoA Pete Burrey's this kid, Burry's keep an

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Speaker 3: eye on him. They're calling him baby SGA. Yes, that's

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Speaker 3: the thing. And I've got Illinois beating Duke in the

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Speaker 3: So I've got Arizona Illinois in the championship, and I

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Speaker 3: know a lot of people are like, way, what about Purdue.

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Speaker 3: Can they get to Indianapolis? Eh? I think they shot

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Speaker 3: So I like Arizona. I'm just telling you, man, they

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Speaker 3: first round. Just a great team, fun to watch. You

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Speaker 3: only lost two games all season. CoA Pete right there.

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Speaker 3: You see he missed one of them. So Arizona's my pick.

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Speaker 3: We'll get into some bets and individual games in the

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Speaker 3: covers the NBA and the Lakers. He is on cloud

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Speaker 3: nine right now because he's got a contender on his hands.

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Speaker 3: Jovon bo who was in the building for Lakers Nuggets,

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Speaker 3: do family stuff, as you know. Was a mood like

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Speaker 6: That was an incredible whin the win of the season

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Speaker 6: I think for the Lakers, and I mean that the

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Speaker 6: vibes are high right now. They've won five in a row,

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Speaker 6: the fives are high in there. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Now, Jovon you'll remember he has you know, Bujas Block.

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Speaker 3: YouTube show, and he was the one who came on

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Speaker 3: la Ravia is a good signing, and everybody, what what

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Speaker 3: the Lakers has looked better recently. It's like Luke Cannard

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Speaker 6: I think so I just tweeted this out, but with

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Speaker 6: This was the big one because when I was on

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Speaker 6: coming out of the All Star break for LA where

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Speaker 6: Wanted them to optimize the Big Three, which coming into

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Speaker 6: to see some statement wins. They just beat the Knicks,

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Speaker 3: So Rachel and I were talking this morning about this whole, like,

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Speaker 3: playing great together, especially defensively, all of a sudden, the

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Speaker 3: numbers flip. What do you think has changed? Are other

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Speaker 3: Why they change?

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Speaker 6: I think that the starting group has been optimized with

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Speaker 6: lineup data, Marcus Smart has led this group in plus

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Speaker 6: One term that JJ likes to use is called the

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Speaker 6: blunder when like you penetrate and then you get the

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Speaker 6: defense scrambling and rotating, like Luke Canard's really good at

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Speaker 6: triggering that. But I think like Luca has been playing

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Speaker 6: being I think more of the third option right now.

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Speaker 6: Then again, you got a bunch of role players playing well,

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Speaker 3: So do we know, and again this is tough with

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Speaker 3: the Lebron situation, do we know why all of a

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Speaker 3: you know, I got to roll into the PJ. Washington

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't think so. I think it's been more

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Speaker 6: so we've seen like when Lebron first came back. I

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Speaker 6: and it was more Luca and Austin because those have

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Speaker 6: they had a seven game win streak early in the season.

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Speaker 6: They started the season fifteen and four, and Lebron came

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Speaker 6: he took a step back. Then Austin Reeves got injured,

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Speaker 6: So I think it's been more so when one of

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Speaker 6: the other one assumes more usage, scores more, has a

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Speaker 6: of like, all right, I'm going to assimilate. I'm going

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Speaker 6: to kind of find my role. So with Lebron going

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Speaker 6: started Austin. You're seeing him playing his best basketball in months.

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Speaker 6: And now Lebron's come back in as the number three,

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Speaker 3: You know, I've been to games and seen you court side,

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Speaker 3: obviously covering the team. Talk me about through the reeves.

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Speaker 3: Missed free throw? Did JJ Reddick signals? Is something I

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Speaker 3: worked on in practice because it just lined up perfect.

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Speaker 3: I mean, that was one of the great plays of

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean one of the one of the players

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Speaker 6: of the season. So what's funny is JJ had said

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Speaker 6: he told Austin to miss to the right because they're

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Speaker 6: trying to anticipate where the second nugget what was going

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Speaker 6: to be in terms of rebounding. So they were telling

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Speaker 6: I think the underrated part of that play is look

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Speaker 7: Do you want me to compare us to them? No?

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Speaker 6: We could beat to New York, we could beat in Minnesota,

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Speaker 3: Let me drill down. So did you mention the Rockets.

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Speaker 6: I don't think if your teammate is you know, comes

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Speaker 6: There could be into something. I mean, I think Minnesota

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Speaker 6: Is a big, big part of it. Like the Lakers

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Speaker 3: Hope he's on a real team next year. Okay, so

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Speaker 3: Rachel's rolling with the Celtics as her favorites. I like

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Speaker 6: Of both minds. I'm gonna give you an answer going into

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Speaker 3: Because Tatum's looked pretty damned.

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Speaker 6: I don't think Kat's been the same players as last season.

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Speaker 3: Another guy. I like their death.

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Speaker 6: I like their I mean, I think the top four

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Speaker 6: in the East, Like if you told me any of

435
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Speaker 6: those four Detroit, Boston, New York, Cleveland, I think those

436
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Speaker 6: are going to be the four teams that advanced in

437
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Speaker 6: the second round, and then it's really going to come

438
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Speaker 6: down to matchups, momentum, injuries, all that stuff. But I

439
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Speaker 6: think right now Boston they're I mean, they've been so

440
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Speaker 6: good without Tatum, and he has been like he's just

441
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Speaker 6: been a seamless fit. And if you look at it,

442
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Speaker 6: like his per possession and per thirty six numbers, he's

443
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Speaker 6: basically back to last season minus the efficiency, like the

444
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Speaker 6: field goal percentage three point percentage has not returned yet,

445
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Speaker 6: but I think that is just a matter of time.

446
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Speaker 6: So yeah, I mean they've been the second best team

447
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Speaker 6: in the East this season, and then you add in

448
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Speaker 6: your best player back, like.

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Speaker 3: I don't know how he's going to hold up against

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Speaker 3: the playoff riggers. You know, it's a it's a lot

451
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Speaker 3: tougher game, and I would take him personally them all right,

452
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Speaker 3: final question, web Yama zero MVP. I know everybody wants

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Speaker 3: to SGA. You go on, SGA. Sure can web Yama

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Speaker 3: at least win the title this year?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 6: Oh, And I've been arriving at this point recently where

457
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Speaker 6: I think you can make a case. I mean, right

458
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Speaker 6: now they are arguably the second best team in the league,

459
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Speaker 6: but like, I think there's a real case for that

460
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Speaker 6: in the playoffs and just this team's just amazing and

461
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Speaker 6: you look at like what what in some several of

462
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Speaker 6: those games against OKAC where they've gone for and one

463
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Speaker 6: Webby didn't even play thirty minutes in those games and

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Speaker 6: they're beating OKAYCE. So like I think there's I mean,

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Speaker 6: they got to get to the conference finals first, but

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Speaker 6: if they can get to the conference finals, I think

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Speaker 6: there are really tough matchup for OKC and one of

468
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Speaker 6: maybe only two teams in the West that can beat Oka.

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Speaker 8: See.

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Speaker 6: So I yeah, I mean typically we do. If if

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Speaker 6: you look at some of the recent champions right, like

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Speaker 6: Boston had several runs to the conference finals before they

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Speaker 6: finally broke through.

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Speaker 3: Oka.

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Speaker 6: See, there was the ascension of first round exit, second

476
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Speaker 6: round exit championship going back to like last decade with

477
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Speaker 6: the Warriors, it was second round, first round, then they

478
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Speaker 6: broke through won the title. So typically teams like this

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Speaker 6: need a year or two of getting your your your

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Speaker 6: playoff experience under your belt. That would be like my

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Speaker 6: one thing with them. But I think they're they're ready.

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Speaker 6: Like they've beaten, they've won like basically every big matchup

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Speaker 6: they've had. They've beaten everybody this season. They've been dominant

484
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Speaker 6: on both ends of the floor. And then the top

485
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Speaker 6: five offense.

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Speaker 3: For the Spurs Lakers were Laker sat everybody, and Webb

487
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Speaker 3: had like twenty five in the first quarter. I was there.

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Speaker 3: I was like, oh my gosh, it's crazy. All right,

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Speaker 3: Yovann Buha obviously great stuff. Check out his Buhas Block podcast.

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Speaker 3: Great stuff as always, Buddy Sanks a lot.

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Speaker 6: Thank you all right.

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Speaker 3: Coming up next here on the Herd, Rachel, there's the

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Speaker 3: longest current streak in the NBA. Is it legit? Rachel's

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Speaker 3: got the inside stuff.

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Speaker 3: you get your podcasts. Back here on the Herd. Great

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Speaker 3: stuff from Jovan Buha on the Lakers. It is always

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Speaker 3: fun when stories really come together just as you predicted

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Speaker 3: they would. Chiefs last year. I got a brag about

510
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Speaker 3: that for another five months. All right, let's go to

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Speaker 3: Rachel with the news.

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Speaker 2: Turn on the news. This is the Herd Line News.

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Speaker 5: I gave you credit last segment.

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Speaker 4: You gotta pray, you gotta take your wins. Yes, you

515
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Speaker 4: gotta take your wins, all right. Let's talk about Shae

516
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Speaker 4: Gildes Alexander. He extended his twenty twenty point.

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Speaker 5: Game streak last night, but barely.

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Speaker 4: It took him scoring six points and basically the final

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Speaker 4: three minutes, but he did it, which means he's now

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Speaker 4: scored at least twenty and one hundred and twenty eight

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Speaker 4: straight games, more than well as we know. And here's

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Speaker 4: what he had to say about it after the game.

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Speaker 7: I didn't care about anything besides doing the game as usual.

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Speaker 7: The game tonight was like so junky, low scoring. They're

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Speaker 7: obviously a good defense. We're a good defense, so it's

526
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Speaker 7: like no surprise. It didn't like to me that those

527
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Speaker 7: type of things have never mattered. It's just always about

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Speaker 7: walking on it with a w If I have a

529
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Speaker 7: night like I have tonight and we win the way

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Speaker 7: we win tonight, for the rest of the season, I'll

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Speaker 7: be the happiest conners. So winning is auto matters.

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Speaker 4: I get it, you're supposed to say that, but I mean, what, why?

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Speaker 5: Why is this right?

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Speaker 4: Because SGA obviously the way he played and just sort

535
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Speaker 4: of the way his teammates were reacting, they knew the

536
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Speaker 4: record was on the line. Aunt Edwards certainly knew the

537
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Speaker 4: record was on the line. He was defending him like

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Speaker 4: it was his last breaths, trying to be the one

539
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Speaker 4: to break the streak. I get it, winning is the

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Speaker 4: most important. No one's saying it isn't. But like, why

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Speaker 4: can't we just why can't athletes in general, it's not

542
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Speaker 4: just a SGA. Why can't athletes in general just admit, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: the regular season to be kind of boring, and these

544
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Speaker 4: streaks sometimes are really fun. It's not like it's an

545
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Speaker 4: antithesis to the team.

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Speaker 3: It helped them win. Agreed. Remember when Lebron had his

547
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Speaker 3: record of double digit scoring forever? Yea, and people always

548
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Speaker 3: just stat Patty's chasing. Are they treating SGA the same way?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 4: No, no, because he had too I mean he had

551
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Speaker 4: two great shots in that in those final three minutes.

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Speaker 3: Did they put him back in the game. I think

553
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Speaker 3: he is now, and I'm like, oh, let's go get

554
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Speaker 3: that record.

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Speaker 5: That's what I mean. We all knew, we all knew whatever.

556
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Speaker 4: But that's different from staff adding he wasn't like, you know,

557
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Speaker 4: there's no wanted to get to you know.

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Speaker 3: That that block on on Gobert. They keep showing out

559
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Speaker 3: clear hand on the fat come on, give me I

560
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Speaker 3: don't know, I just listen. I've dialed backed the free

561
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Speaker 3: throw merchant stuff. Yes, but gosh, I hope the Spurs

562
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Speaker 3: betime in the player.

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Speaker 4: We know what I like about this record though. This

564
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Speaker 4: is exactly who Shay is. He is the most consistent

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Speaker 4: superstar in the NBA that you literally know. He will

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Speaker 4: get you twenty plus a game every single night he's

567
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Speaker 4: out there. He will play hard, he will play defense.

568
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Speaker 4: I think he's a perfect record for him and it

569
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Speaker 4: epitomizes who he is as a player. So he should

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Speaker 4: try to continue it, and he should admit it, just saying.

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Speaker 3: Just admit it.

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Speaker 7: Right.

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Speaker 3: By the way, Jared McCain could not play with the

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Speaker 3: Sixers and now he's like in a starring role because

575
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Speaker 3: guys on the Thunder hurt. What are the Sixers doing? Mcaine?

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Speaker 5: I mean, great, the Thunder have done this, have.

577
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Speaker 3: A million guys. That's the thing that comes to j right.

578
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Speaker 4: Could he couldn't couldn't you know, get a full guaranteed

579
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Speaker 4: contract and now he's like integral.

580
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Speaker 3: So they're seventh guy on the Lakers. I don't know,

581
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Speaker 3: if he's in the playoff rotation for the Thunder.

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Speaker 4: No, I mean they got a million dudes, But that

583
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Speaker 4: speaks to their coaching and development. I mean the development

584
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Speaker 4: staff on the Thunder or top top notch.

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Speaker 3: Well, listen, it's easy when you're in OKAC and there's

586
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Speaker 3: not a lot to do. You know, come on, they're

587
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Speaker 3: locked in all summer. Those guys are good. Hey serious,

588
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Speaker 3: I've never been.

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Speaker 5: Okay, And by the way, those guys are in LA

590
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Speaker 5: all summer. But that's okay.

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Speaker 3: Oh sucks.

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Speaker 5: All right, let's talk Lakers.

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Speaker 4: I know you're super high on them, right, Look, I

594
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Speaker 4: picked the Lakers to be third in the West in

595
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Speaker 4: our preseason picks, so I like when they proved me

596
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Speaker 4: right also. But but look, the last two minute report

597
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Speaker 4: came out after that game against Denver. They ruled that

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Speaker 4: this play on Austin Reeves was officiated incorrectly. It wasn't

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Speaker 4: a foul, It was a clean strip if it had

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Speaker 4: been called correctly, Jason, is pretty unlikely the game even

601
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Speaker 4: makes it to overtime. So no win, no signature, Luca,

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Speaker 4: this was his Lakers moment. Does your joy over this

603
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Speaker 4: win recede it?

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Speaker 5: All? Knowing that it was built on a incorrect call.

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Speaker 3: Listen, Rachel, come on, will buzz kill this?

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Speaker 5: Well, that's what I'm asking. By the way, again, I

607
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Speaker 5: picked them through.

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Speaker 2: In the West.

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Speaker 5: I think they as this run is great.

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Speaker 4: I'm not boooing the Lakers, but like the win, technically

611
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Speaker 4: kind of shouldn't have happened.

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Speaker 3: So here's the thing. The ref was right there, like

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Speaker 3: literally a foot away from the play, so he saw

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Speaker 3: something and called it. Now, I didn't know if they

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Speaker 3: were trying to foul before they could get the shot off.

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Speaker 3: Were they trying to do that? Do you think they

617
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Speaker 3: were fouling a lot? At the end it looked like

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Speaker 3: he got body first and then ball.

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Speaker 4: I I mean, look this, official officials are human. We

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Speaker 4: just talked about this with came Rosenthal World Baseball Classic

621
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Speaker 4: right the last pitch, and they're going to take some

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Speaker 4: of that humanity out of the game this coming season.

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Speaker 3: We have robot NBA referee.

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Speaker 4: I don't know as my just some players would like,

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Speaker 4: how do you think Luca would do with a robot?

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Speaker 3: A can't tu of official? Right? They don't care? Well,

627
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Speaker 3: I'm sure Elon Musk is on the case. Let me

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Speaker 3: say though, yes, it was a great one for the Lakers.

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Speaker 3: They needed a lot to go right. Blown. Call Jamal

630
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Speaker 3: Murray worst game as a row. He was one of

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Speaker 3: thirteen the Austin Reeds free throw which how often does

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Speaker 3: that happen? One out of twenty one out of.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, some are in there, something needed.

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Speaker 3: But you know what, Hey, them are the breaks. We

635
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Speaker 3: got them today. We're not going to get them against

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Speaker 3: you know, Orlando later this week. Enjoy the dub as

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Speaker 3: the kids say, the dub Sorry.

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Speaker 5: Let's keep it on.

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Speaker 6: The NBA.

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Speaker 4: Reports are saying that the NBA will hold a vote

641
00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 4: at the Board of Governor's meetings later this week to

642
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:45,959
Speaker 4: continue consider They're going to go for it. We've been

643
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Speaker 4: talking about expansion for so long. Jason, Las Vegas and Seattle.

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Speaker 4: They are saying they are going to vote on whether

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00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 4: those two cities can compete to be expansion teams. They're

646
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Speaker 4: not opening up the bid to any city, any ownership

647
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Speaker 4: group in any city.

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Speaker 5: It's us those two teams, right.

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Speaker 4: They are projected to be top revenue getters, among the

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Speaker 4: top eight revenue generators in the league. So it's interesting

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Speaker 4: to me. It's not that Seattle, by the way, bring

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Speaker 4: back the Sonics. So like, I'm very happy about this,

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Speaker 4: but it's not so interesting to me that's gonna be

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Speaker 4: Seattle in Vegas because we knew that already, right, it's

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Speaker 4: more of these are two Western Conference teams that will

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Speaker 4: be coming in.

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Speaker 5: So, who do you move to the east? Jason McIntyre, yours?

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Speaker 3: Did you move the Wolves or what was?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 4: So here's the thing geographically, if you just want to look,

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Speaker 4: who's the eastern most team in the West, it's Memphis, right,

662
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Speaker 4: They're the only team east of the Mississippi technically.

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Speaker 5: And whatever, But Minnesota makes more sense.

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Speaker 4: You're basically creating your own NFC North the rivalries like

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Speaker 4: that kind of thing.

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Speaker 5: So it's gonna be very interesting to see what they do.

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Speaker 4: Because both Memphis and New Orleans are east of Minneapolis.

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Speaker 5: It's not a lot, but if you.

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Speaker 3: Look at them out, New Orleans would love to go,

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Speaker 3: Oh God, nobody wants to be in the West. Woman

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Speaker 3: Yama and the Thunder are not going to But.

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Speaker 4: Think about if they do move Minnesota to the east.

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Speaker 4: If you're the NBA right A, you can justify it

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Speaker 4: by being like, oh, we want to get the rivalries

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Speaker 4: and the division and all the people up there and

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Speaker 4: the sort of you know, north, middle part of the country,

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Speaker 4: and then you've got Aunt Edwards in the East. You

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Speaker 4: have potential Anthony Edwards Victor Webinama finals good for the NBA.

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Speaker 4: So I'm very curious to hear what they're going.

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Speaker 3: But then Anthony Edwards is gonna leave Minnesota for the

681
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Speaker 3: next anyway at some point, right, oh boy? But no, no,

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Speaker 3: that that breakdown is interesting. So you said Memphis is

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Speaker 3: more west than Minnesota.

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Speaker 5: They're the East, They're more east, more east.

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Speaker 3: Okay, were the.

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Speaker 5: Easternmost team in the Western.

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Speaker 3: And Memphis and Indianapolis are kind of I mean there's

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Speaker 3: they could create some division where those teams are close. Beto.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, no, for sure. And look again, Memphis would

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Speaker 4: love to be in the East. Every team would love

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Speaker 4: to be in the host.

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Speaker 3: Right now, it's just weaker.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Well, we'll see who wins this lottery. I mean, maybe

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Speaker 3: that could change some things. But I am curious. I

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Speaker 3: saw a NBA trainer, Drew Handlin out if you know him,

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Speaker 3: I had him on my podcast. Really shar No, he's great.

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Speaker 3: He works with.

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Speaker 5: Tatoms and Tatum's guy, right.

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Speaker 3: He had an interesting take if they expand when Yeah,

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Speaker 3: that they should shrink the schedule to sixty two games

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Speaker 3: and do no back to backs. I know no owners

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Speaker 3: is gonna want to get back and happen.

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Speaker 4: I agree, of course they should shrink the schedule, but

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Speaker 4: of course it's never going to happen. Of course they

706
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Speaker 4: should seed one through sixteen in the playoffs, but of

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Speaker 4: course it's never going to happen.

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Speaker 5: Of course they should pick.

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Speaker 4: All Stars from the whole pool. Of course it's never

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Speaker 4: going to happen. Owners will protect what's theirs. Yes, and

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Speaker 4: there is no way they are giving back money on

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Speaker 4: the eighty two games. There is no way they're not

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Speaker 4: going to have as many East All Stars as West

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Speaker 4: All Stars because that's good for ticket.

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Speaker 5: Sales in the East. All of these ideas, they're not

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Speaker 5: going to happen.

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Speaker 3: Okay, But time out, Rachel, that was way too negative

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Speaker 3: for me. I bring it back to negative for you. Yes,

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Speaker 3: hold on, hold on. So if they're willing to spitball

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Speaker 3: ideas for the three point line and tanking and they're throwing,

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Speaker 3: let me hear ten good ideas about how to shrink

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Speaker 3: the schedule without necessarily giving back money. There if we

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Speaker 3: can adjust the all start game and tanking and all,

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Speaker 3: let's put together a committee, give me some ideas well.

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Speaker 4: Their chance to do it was this last TV contract.

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Speaker 4: They got so much extra money from the TVX contract.

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Speaker 4: You certainly could have sold or you could have pitched

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Speaker 4: to the owners, Hey we're still You're still going to

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Speaker 4: end up ahead, right, sixty two games, but the TV

730
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Speaker 4: contract's so big you'll still end up ahead.

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Speaker 5: But again, nobody, none of these guys. I don't care

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Speaker 5: how much of a billionaire you are. We've seen it.

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Speaker 5: They don't want to make less money.

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Speaker 3: I would agree, they definitely won't.

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Speaker 5: It's a shame.

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Speaker 3: Is there a way around that where we just shrink

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Speaker 3: the schedule and they don't have to give back money,

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Speaker 3: The players don't have to.

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Speaker 5: Give back I don't see it.

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Speaker 3: Are smart people out there, Rachel, somebody is on the case.

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Speaker 5: Well, how do you it's I don't know, I don't know.

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Speaker 5: It's mass.

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Speaker 3: Well, tanking is math too, isn't it.

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Speaker 4: But we've got ideas, But that's not taking money out

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Speaker 4: of any of it's pocket.

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Speaker 5: Like tickets. What gives you revenue?

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Speaker 6: Right?

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00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 5: Ticket sales from Davis? If you've got twenty.

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Speaker 4: Less games of tickets hips, Yes, it TV contracts, they

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Speaker 4: would be ten because of home game. Well yeah, yeah, okay, great,

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Speaker 4: but around the leak it would be kiddy right, And

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Speaker 4: then TV contracts. TV writers are gonna say, well, I'm

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Speaker 4: not I now have to do other programming on those nights.

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Speaker 4: I'm not getting those NBA ratings on those nights. I

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Speaker 4: gotta put something else on. I'm not gonna pay as much.

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Speaker 3: So if there are smart enough people that can build

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Speaker 3: algorithms to get us hooked on this damn thing, certainly

758
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:17,800
Speaker 3: somebody can figure out a way we're not gonna happen.

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Speaker 3: It has to be not gonna happen.

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Speaker 4: You and I R when we're in our eighties, I'm

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Speaker 4: gonna text you and it be like, see, I.

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Speaker 3: Don't know if I want to be a live at eighties.

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Speaker 3: It worth't. I mean, like, can I play by my

764
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Speaker 3: men's league?

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Speaker 5: Like the very dark turn.

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Speaker 3: Yes, your negativity about this, it's just not going to happen.

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Speaker 5: It's the truth.

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Speaker 3: NBA owners listening, Mark Cuban, come on, that's your Can

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Speaker 3: you text Mark Cuban? Listen? Let's get Mark? How can

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Speaker 3: we do this? All right? That was fun racer with

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Speaker 3: the Newes.

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Speaker 2: Well that's the news and thanks for stopping by the

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Speaker 2: Herd Line news. All right.

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Speaker 3: I know we haven't done any NFL yet on the show,

775
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 3: but I saw one story over the weekend and some quotes.

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Speaker 3: Something's going on with one of the NFL Super Bowl

777
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 3: favorites and it's good, but maybe not in the long term.

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Speaker 3: That's next on The Herd.

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Speaker 5: Forgetting your day.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Herd Weekdays

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Speaker 2: and Noone Eastern non am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio

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Speaker 2: FS one and the iHeartRadio app for the.

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Speaker 4: Fanatics Flag Football Classic on Fox. I'm going to be

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Speaker 4: in the building, Jason. I'm so excited for this star

785
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Speaker 4: studded three team round robin tournament featuring the best in

786
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Speaker 4: the game, Saturday, four pm Eastern.

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Speaker 5: Only on Fox.

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Speaker 4: Get you ready, It's good. Flag football is going to

789
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Speaker 4: be in the Olympics. Tom Brady trying to prove his

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Speaker 4: worth here.

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Speaker 3: Mister Reuben must have forgot my invite, maybe lost in

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Speaker 3: the mail, perhaps.

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Speaker 5: On our own. Looks like some of us were invited.

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Speaker 3: Yes, you know, some of us are big time. Some

795
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Speaker 3: of us are just you know here existing. All right,

796
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Speaker 3: let's go to the NFL real quick. One quick story

797
00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 3: we would all agree to RAM for the best team

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Speaker 3: in the league last year, right, I mean, they did

799
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:02,239
Speaker 3: not get to the Super Bowl. They had a tough

800
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Speaker 3: loss in Seattle. The only reason it was in Seattle

801
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:07,800
Speaker 3: was because there's some fluky two point conversion on Thursday

802
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:12,400
Speaker 3: night football. Unbelievable turn of events. Rams were great, special

803
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:16,040
Speaker 3: teams failed them. Seattle wins the Super Bowl. Off season happens,

804
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:21,120
Speaker 3: Seattle loses by my count for starters and their offensive coordinator.

805
00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 3: Rams get an all Pro cornerback in Trent McDuffie. Now

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Speaker 3: I don't think anybody noticed this, but listen to what

807
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Speaker 3: McDuffie said about why he's going to the Rams and

808
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Speaker 3: extending with them to be one of the highest paid

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Speaker 3: corners in the league.

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Speaker 8: A big thing for me was I wanted to go

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Speaker 8: to a team that were contenders. Like, let's just be honest,

812
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Speaker 8: this team has been knocking on the door year in

813
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Speaker 8: year out, especially since I've been in the league in

814
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Speaker 8: I could tell that this culture was something special. You know,

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Speaker 8: talking to a lot of guys that I've either been

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Speaker 8: on this team or have been here in another team,

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Speaker 8: I've just told me that the love, support and just

818
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 8: the overall atmosphere of being a Ram.

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Speaker 6: Was top notch, like best in the league.

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Speaker 3: Whoa How is that not bigger news? Go to a

821
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 3: team that were contenders? He left the Chiefs. Everybody, what

822
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:18,520
Speaker 3: does that mean? Does he think the Chiefs are not contenders? Oh? Wow?

823
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Speaker 3: Somebody agreeing with me? Love that McDuffie, superstar love them.

824
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:28,360
Speaker 3: Now comes a report over the weekend that the Rams

825
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Speaker 3: are still going for aj Brown and as they were

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Speaker 3: in the process of doing that, they were thinking, do

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Speaker 3: we move off Devonte Adams? Now, I don't know if

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00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:40,399
Speaker 3: that's real or that's hey, DeVante Adams wanting maybe more money,

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Speaker 3: a new deal. I don't know. It's unclear, but this

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Speaker 3: is what I do know. Here is a list of

831
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Speaker 3: the Rams twenty twenty seven free agents, so after next season.

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Speaker 3: These are the guys, according to spot track, who are

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00:36:56,760 --> 00:37:02,520
Speaker 3: free agents for the Rams. Matthew Stafford, DeVante Adams, three

834
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Speaker 3: offensive linemen Dotson Shelton Avila. Three on defense Byron Young,

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Speaker 3: Kobe Turner. That's two starters on the D line. And

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Speaker 3: I forgot an offensive player, a wide receiver by the

837
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Speaker 3: name of Poka Nakua. Folks, the Rams are all in this,

838
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:20,680
Speaker 3: all in this year.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 3: My hot take a few weeks ago, maybe a month ago, was, hey,

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Speaker 3: what if there's a world where the Rams say let's

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Speaker 3: go all in get the Super Bowl. Stafford retires a

843
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:33,959
Speaker 3: la John l Way, and McVeigh steps down and says,

844
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Speaker 3: I need a break. I'm into three super Bowls. I've

845
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Speaker 3: won to peace out. Cliff Kingsbury, who's now the assistant

846
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:45,480
Speaker 3: head coach, slides in as the new head coach. Coward scoffed,

847
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Speaker 3: and then Daniel Jeremiah, NFL analyst went on his podcast

848
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Speaker 3: and said this about the Rams.

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Speaker 6: He had Jared Goff and realized Jared Goff he didn't

850
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Speaker 6: feel like was good enough. He wanted he wanted more,

851
00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:00,400
Speaker 6: or he wanted more, wanted more, so he moves on

852
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:02,000
Speaker 6: from him and go get Matthew Stafford.

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Speaker 2: Now Stafford is the MVP of the league.

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Speaker 6: But I don't think this is a five year runway

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00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:07,480
Speaker 6: they have there.

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Speaker 2: They're this close to winning a.

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Speaker 6: Super Bowl, and there's everybody expects that whenever Stafford moves on,

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00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:14,400
Speaker 6: there's a decent chance that Sean McVay moves on.

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Speaker 3: Folks, you could go ahead and write this in Penn

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Speaker 3: the Rams are winning the Super Bowl next year, Okay,

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00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 3: Seahawks lost four starters in their ROC. The Rams got

862
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:31,680
Speaker 3: better and short up their secondary I'm assuming the special

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00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:33,759
Speaker 3: teams will not be the nightmare it was last year.

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Speaker 3: But lock it in right now, Rams super Bowl. I mean, listen,

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Speaker 3: the league is not scripted from March, but Rams super Bowl.

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Speaker 3: McVeigh and Stafford say we're out. Lock it in all right.

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Speaker 3: Let me go back to the NCAA tournament real quick.

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Speaker 3: I just wanted to touch on a budding star that

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Speaker 3: I guess his fame grew a little over the weekend

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Speaker 3: and some of the hot take artists online we're latching

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Speaker 3: onto something so obviously. John Calipari. He's the godfather of

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Speaker 3: the one and done era. He gets the best high

873
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Speaker 3: school players. They cook, then they go to the pros.

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Speaker 3: Just a couple of them. Anthony Davis, I mean, come on,

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Speaker 3: National Player of the Year, NBA champion, I mean, come on,

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Speaker 3: Anthony Davis. An unbelievable player. Karl Anthony Towns was the

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Speaker 3: number one pick. Remember they were undefeated at Kentucky lost

878
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Speaker 3: to Wisconsin the final four, crushing loss. Goes to the pros.

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Speaker 3: It's gonna make a half a billion dollars Devin Booker

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Speaker 3: was the sixth man on that team. Calipari also recruited

881
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Speaker 3: a guy by the name of Derreck Rose to Memphis.

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, Rose was extraordinary. Came within a missed

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Speaker 3: free throw and a Mario Chalmers three of winning a

884
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Speaker 3: title as a freshman. Derek Rowse unbelievable, John Wall, bam Adebayo,

885
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Speaker 3: Darren Fox, Tyrese Maxey. The joke about Tyrese Maxey is

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Speaker 3: the only guy who could slow him down is John Calipari.

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Speaker 3: They said that about Devin Booker.

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Speaker 7: Two.

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Speaker 3: So Calipari has had a laundry list of future pros

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Speaker 3: who were awesome, and then along comes a guy named

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Speaker 3: Dariy A Cuff who was not the most heralded freshman

892
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Speaker 3: to come in this year into the college basketball and

893
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Speaker 3: all he's done is just roast everybody. He I mean, folks,

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Speaker 3: The shot making he was delivering at the SEC Tournament

895
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Speaker 3: just jaw dropping stuff. You can't guard him one on one.

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Speaker 3: He has this Kevin Durant move at the top of

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Speaker 3: the key. Look at the side step three. That's a

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Speaker 3: James Harden move. He makes that look easy regularly. And

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Speaker 3: so the hot take artists online are like, oh, well,

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Speaker 3: this is the best guard we've ever seen Calipari's had.

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Speaker 3: I mean, look at that pull up three in transition.

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Speaker 3: That looks like Kevin Durant at six foot three. The

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Speaker 3: guy had thirty and eleven against Vandy, and Vandy's a

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Speaker 3: sneaky team. Man, they got some guards. I mean, a

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Speaker 3: Cuff was unbelievable. So here are the freshmen Calipari's had. Again, Calipari,

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Speaker 3: you know he was it. We don't have any of

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Speaker 3: the g Mask guys there, but we have the Derek

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Speaker 3: Rose and then a bunch of Kentucky players. A Cuff's

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Speaker 3: outscored all of them. I didn't even mention Jamal Murray early. Gosh,

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Speaker 3: he's good. Look at that list of guards, folks, and

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Speaker 3: there is chatter that Acuff may be better than all

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Speaker 3: of them. And this is where it gets crazy. He

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Speaker 3: might not even be a top three pick in the draft.

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's how sick this draft is. I mean,

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Speaker 3: Boozer has a chance to go one. He could also

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Speaker 3: slide to five because people are like, he's not athletic enough. Okay,

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Speaker 3: we know Darren Peterson of Kansas is just a tremendous talent,

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Speaker 3: but is he does he have the dog in him?

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Speaker 3: Or is he does he not want to play? It's

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Speaker 3: interesting since he started playing a lot. Kansas not looking

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Speaker 3: great by the way their bracket lines up with I

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Speaker 3: think they would face damn it. I think it's Duke.

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Speaker 3: They could face Duke in the Sweet sixteen Boozer versus Peterson,

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Speaker 3: and I didn't even mentioned aj debonsa of BYU. I

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Speaker 3: think he would be voted most likely to go on

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Speaker 3: like a Danny Manning type run in the postseason and

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Speaker 3: pull off a championship. And I know I'm dating myself

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Speaker 3: because half our audience is like, who's Danny Manning? Dan

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Speaker 3: and the Miracles look it up nineteen eighty eight. I mean,

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Speaker 3: he's just an unbelievable run. I'm fairly certain they bee

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Speaker 3: Stacy King and Oklahoma. I'll never forget. We were in

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Speaker 3: New York. I think it was Easter weekend something around there,

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Speaker 3: and I'm just watching it on this TV with like

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Speaker 3: rabbit ears. I'm like, Oh, this Danny Manning guy, he's

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Speaker 3: gonna be the best. Injuries crushed his career, but this

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Speaker 3: is how loaded the freshman classes, folks. And I'm just

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Speaker 3: telling you, this guy acuff Holy Cow. I mean, Arkansas

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Speaker 3: has some dudes, and I think it's a real discussion,

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Speaker 3: like if you're building the Mount Rushmore of guards for

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Speaker 3: John Calipari. Acuff's definitely on it. Is he gonna be

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Speaker 3: his Derek Rose in the pros. I think he'll be

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Speaker 3: better than John Wall, and John Wall was special. Folks,

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Speaker 3: This March madness, it's gonna be crazy. Make sure you

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Speaker 3: tune in Final Hour coming up.