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Speaker 1: Happy Wednesday, everybody. I hope all of you guys are

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Speaker 1: having a great week so far. Today we're going to

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Speaker 1: be covering the epic showdown last night in Las Vegas.

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Speaker 1: Between one of the most exciting NBA prospects ever in

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Speaker 1: Victor wemban Yama out of France and Scoot Henderson another

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Speaker 1: hoops tonight. So we're gonna keep this very simple. I'm

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Speaker 1: So already, right now, before he gets any better, before

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Speaker 1: a high risk, higher reward pick Um definitely projects to

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Speaker 1: woman Yama in my in in my opinion, the last

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Speaker 1: thing I wanted to say today um mentality ends up

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Speaker 1: freak athlete type doesn't necessarily run the league. That's three

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Speaker 1: How many of your big wings that are versatile turn

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Speaker 1: Paul George or Kawhi Leonard. Right, Like, all of it

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Speaker 1: comes down to, are you willing to dedicate your life

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Speaker 1: the other pros around the league that are also working hard.

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Speaker 1: That will be what determines whether or not Victor becomes

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Speaker 1: I think fourth if I remember correctly, um after that

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Speaker 1: I had him eighteenth in my player rankings. ESPN had

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Speaker 1: him like his mentality is just not the same. We

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Speaker 1: this guy might rule the league one day. At one

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Speaker 1: never panned out because he didn't have it up here.

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Speaker 1: Same thing goes with Carl Towns. There were some moments

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Speaker 1: and he just never was consistent enough in his night

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Speaker 1: out of mind when we're having best player in the

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Speaker 1: League discussions. So all of this stuff with Victor is exciting,

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Speaker 1: all of this stuff with Scoot is exciting, But it's

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Speaker 1: really up to them and how much they care. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: luck plays a role to in terms of health and situation,

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Speaker 1: but at the end of the day, only they know

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Speaker 1: deep down when it comes to their love of the

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Speaker 1: game of basketball and how much they hate losing basketball games,

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Speaker 1: how much they hate not being the best version of themselves,

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Speaker 1: yet how much that drives them on a night in

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Speaker 1: the night out basis that's gonna be what determines their

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Speaker 1: outcome more than anything else. All Right, guys, that is

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Speaker 1: all I have for right now. We'll be back either

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Speaker 1: later tonight or tomorrow with the video with me and Carson.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna be going over um NBA futures, so bets

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Speaker 1: that I like based on like over unders championship favorites,

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Speaker 1: things along those lines, and as well as the annual

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Speaker 1: GM Survey, which always has a bunch of interesting stuff,

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Speaker 1: some interesting um similarities between the way GM see the

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Speaker 1: game and the way we see the game, like we've

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Speaker 1: talked about on the show so much over the year

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Speaker 1: or so that we've been doing this. All right, As always,

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Speaker 1: I sincerely appreciate you guys to support and I'll see

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Speaker 1: you next time. The volume